--- title: "AI and the Labor Market: A Worker's Eye View · AI Fault Line" url: https://aifaultline.com/research/p/title-05e0616e5de7ec8e/ description: "AI Fault Line is a neutral, evidence-cited field guide to why experts looking at the same developments disagree about AI's effect on productivity, jobs, inequality, regulation and the pace of change." --- [Research](https://aifaultline.com/research/) # AI and the Labor Market: A Worker's Eye View Kiara (Ji Hyun) Kim, Gregory Sun, Nathan Mester · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 16 Jun 2026 [Read original source](https://osf.io/qjym2) Open access Where this sits in the debate - [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) Direction of the finding as read from the abstract by an AI model ([AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/)). ## Abstract The purpose of this project is to understand how workers respond to the introduction of generative artificial intelligence (AI). We run a survey motivated by foundational concepts from labor economics and aim to show that the standard frameworks used by labor economists work well in explaining heterogeneous worker responses to AI. ## About this publication **Preprint.** A preprint — posted publicly before or without journal peer review; findings may still be revised. Published 2026 (4 months ago) Citations 0 (OpenAlex) 0 citations recorded by OpenAlex — too few 2026 papers in this collection for a fair comparison. [Chart: published 2026] ## More on this topic Related by theme, not necessarily by method or conclusion. - [The Effects of Generative AI on High Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-2139-ssrn-4945566/) SSRN · 2024 - [GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-48550-arxiv-2303-10130/) arXiv · 2023 - [Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1126-science-adh2586/) Science · 2023 - [The simple macroeconomics of AI](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1093-epolic-eiae042/) Economic Policy · 2024 Overview assembled automatically from collected metadata. [How this site is built](https://aifaultline.com/about/).