Do Job Postings Show Early Labor-Market Effects of AI? - Liberty Street Economics

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A look at AI’s impact on labor demand and whether early evidence of its effect on the labor market appears in firms’ job postings.

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Executives are blaming layoffs on AI, but research shows AI is 'not the main driver' of US labor slowdown.

Yahoo Finance Emma Ockerman May 16, 2026

Squaring AI-spurred layoff announcements with the available data on how companies have — and haven't — changed their workforces in the aggregate paints a more complicated picture of both the US labor market and AI's role in reshaping it.

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Labor market resilient to AI, so far

semafor.com Jeronimo Gonzalez May 15, 2026

A recent survey by the New York Fed showed “firms intend to incorporate AI mainly via retraining, with limited effects on hiring.”

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