Seminar 1
The seminar presented the interim results of a study on the impact of AI on the Russian labour market. Participants discussed the study's theoretical framework (analysis of skill bundles, complementarity, and substitution effects), the classification of over 700k job postings by industry and profession, updated AI skill dictionaries, and preliminary empirical conclusions, including growth in demand for AI skills, salary premiums, substitution effects in routine cognitive tasks, and complementarity in IT and management vacancies. Afterwards, plans were made to publish articles, prepare an open dataset, and participate in scientific conferences.
Seminar 2
The seminar reviewed the list of journals on economics and computer science prepared by Konstantin Ilyashchenko. Promising topics in continuation of the first research paper and the collected database were discussed in the context of these journals' average publication time. Georgy Kozin presented an overview of empirical articles, including ones on the topics of AI-exposure and AI substitution. Plans to produce extended abstracts and paper drafts for the participation in upcoming student conferences were also discussed.
Kozin, empirical review
Seminar 3
A joint seminar in a hybrid format with the Department of Economics of the HSE University - St. Petersburg. Andrei Ternikov presented the results of the study: a pronounced upward trend in demand for AI skills, a significant reduction in the salary premium for owning such skills (by 20 percentage points in 2021-2025), as well as the lack of empirical evidence of the effects of labour substitution. The preliminary results are consistent with the complementarity scenario between AI-skills and human labour.
The seminar materials will be added later.
Seminar 4
Konstantin Ilyashchenko presented the results of an econometric data analysis on the topic "Spatial heterogeneity of returns on artificial intelligence skills in Russia." The report was accepted for the XVII International Academic Conference for undergraduate, graduate and PhD students on "Statistical Methods Application for Analysis of Economics and Society".
The seminar materials will be added later.
Seminar 5
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