HOW ADAPTABLE ARE AMERICAN WORKERS TO AI-INDUCED JOB DISPLACEMENT

2026

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1) This paper investigates the crucial question of how well American workers are equipped to handle job displacement caused by artificial intelligence, moving beyond simple exposure metrics to assess their adaptive capacity.
2) * Explores the relationship between AI exposure and worker adaptive capacity across 356 U.S. occupations.
* Identifies key factors contributing to adaptive capacity, including net liquid wealth, skill transferability, geographic density, and age.
* Highlights specific occupations and worker groups that are particularly vulnerable to AI-induced job displacement due to low adaptive capacity.
3) AI, workers, job displacement, adaptive capacity, labor market

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