NBER Paper Examines Why Workers Stay Employed After Automation Makes Them Replaceable
mooreds · hn · 2026-09-08
NBER working paper w35559, Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work, tackles the paradox that many jobs are already technically automatable yet workers remain employed. It analyzes this through labor economics and the meaning of work, adding a substantive academic angle to the AI-and-jobs debate.
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