Artificial intelligence and labor markets: evidence from google trends
摘要
This paper investigates the effects of artificial intelligence on the labor markets of US states. The empirical analysis is based on the local projections method, where weekly state-level labor market conditions and Google search trends of "artificial intelligence" as a field of study are used. Robust to the consideration of state fixed effects and time fixed effects, the empirical results based on cumulative impulse responses show that positive shocks to "artificial intelligence" search trends deteriorate state-level labor market conditions for up to one month (consistent with the displacement effect), whereas they start improving state-level labor market conditions after six months (consistent with the productivity effect). Regarding the magnitudes, one standard deviation of a shock to state-level "artificial intelligence" search trends deteriorates (improves) state-level labor market conditions that corresponds to about