Labour Market Adoption

New technologies change how we live and work. This research stream studies how technologies are adopted in practice, how they reshape the demand for skills, where new forms of work appear, and how they affect societal institutions.

We examine labour-market adoption through online job postings, platform data, firm-level information and occupational skill data. Using natural language processing, network science and large-scale digital trace data, we analyse how AI and other frontier technologies, such as AI, complement some tasks, replace others, and create new job profiles.

By linking technologies, firms, jobs, skills and places, we aim to identify early signals of labour-market change. Our work helps show which workers and regions benefit from new technologies, where adoption creates bottlenecks, and which transition pathways can support a more resilient labour market. In addtion, we study the implications of the adoption of new technologies on societal instituions such as the legal system or online communication.

Goals

1. Track how firms adopt new technologies and translate them into labour demand.
2. Identify emerging skills, tasks and job profiles before classifications catch up.
3. Map worker-transition pathways into new and technology-complementary work.