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Anna Salomons

Economist, Tilburg University and Utrecht University
Signed the letter · Academia · Netherlands

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Professor of Labor Economics at Tilburg University and Instituut Gak endowed professor at Utrecht University School of Economics, where she was appointed Professor of Employment and Inequality in 2018. Author of work on technology and labor markets, including 'New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018' (with David Autor and co-authors) and 'What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate?'. Co-recipient of the European Economic Association's 2024 Role Models in Economics Award. PhD in economics from the University of Leuven (2012). Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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13 works in the co-authorship map · 4,059 citations across them

Sources

  1. Anna Salomons - IZA Institute of Labor Economics profile
  2. Anna Salomons appointed as Professor of Employment and Inequality - Utrecht University
  3. Anna Salomons receives Role Models in Economics Award - Utrecht University
  4. New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018
  5. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

4 co-authors on the map · PageRank #100 of 400 · bridge #197 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Labor markets and technology.

Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Anna Salomons on the map

Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? it's complicated

Finds automation has displaced labor from the income share it once earned, even as employment kept growing — and that 'new work' offsets matter.

Evidence

  1. Is Automation Labor-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share
  2. New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018

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Will AI widen inequality? leans agree

Documents automation eroding the labor share of income across countries.

Evidence

  1. Is Automation Labor-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

Should governments act on AI now? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

How fast will the impact arrive? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Selected work

Writes with

Maarten Goos (6), David Autor (4), James Bessen (3), Bryan Seegmiller (2)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (4 of 4 shown).

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