Topic Job Mobility

The ability to find a job and transition between jobs measures the dynamism of the U.S. labor market. When the labor market is tight and workers are mobile, they are able to find a job that best suits their skills and offers fair rewards. Equitable Growth follows determinants of job mobility to understand how dynamic the labor market is in the U.S. economy.

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AI exposure by U.S. occupations and work tasks and the effect on wages

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Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data

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Explaining the “History of Technology” series and equitable growth

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