The adjustment of the Danish labour market to AI has begun

CEPR VoxEU (institute research) · 8 Oct 2026

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Linking Denmark's official IT-use survey to monthly employer-employee records, this column finds that firms which started using AI in 2023 fell behind their own pre-adoption employment trend. The decline is concentrated in AI-exposed jobs and new hires and is significant only among small firms, an effect not yet visible in aggregate statistics.

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Policymakers are asking whether generative AI is reshaping labour demand, and the literature has found mixed results so far. This column links Denmark’s official IT-use survey to monthly employer–employee records and compares firms that started using AI in 2023 with those that did not. Early adopters fall behind their own pre-adoption employment trend. The decline is most visible in AI-exposed jobs and among new hires, and only significant among small firms. The results indicate that AI is affecting the labour market, even though the effect is not visible in the aggregate statistics.

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