Leiden, Netherlands, 18 February 2025 – Christina Gathmann, a SkiLMeeT researcher from the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), has been awarded the 2025 IZA – Institute of Labour Economics IRPPI Award for Innovative Research on a Pressing Public Issue.
The research “AI, Task Changes in Jobs, and Worker Reallocation”, conducted in collaboration with Felix Grimm (LISER) and Erwin Winkler (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), provides new insights into how AI is reshaping the labour market. The study finds that AI has reduced demand for abstract tasks like information gathering while increasing demand for high-level routine tasks such as process monitoring. These shifts mainly occur within jobs and intensify over time. Although job losses are minimal, many workers respond by switching to less AI-exposed industries. The study also finds that low-skilled workers experience some wage losses, whereas high-skilled workers see wage gains.
The IZA IRPPI Award selection committee, composed of Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto) and Andrew Oswald (IZA & University of Warwick), praised the study as representing “the best of modern labour economics.”
The paper is available here.
