Paper warns AI-era junior hiring cuts may cause talent shortages
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-21
A new paper co-authored with Guido Friebel and others examines how AI reshapes internal labor markets. It shows that cutting junior hiring when AI arrives may weaken the pipeline creating future seniors, leading to "lost cohorts" of juniors and cycles of shortage and glut over time.
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