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Workforce in motion: Skills and pathways to future jobs in the United States

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AI, automation, and broader structural trends are accelerating the reallocation of work across the US economy. Capturing its benefits requires developing new professional pathways and skills, and reducing barriers between declining and growing occupations.

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Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI
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AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together...
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Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Latin America
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
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Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Europe
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
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Tough trade-offs: How time and career choices shape the gender pay gap
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Nearly 80 percent of the US gender pay gap is driven by women having flatter work experience arcs compared with men, based on...
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Dependency and depopulation? Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality
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Exploring the implications of a new demographic reality brought on by falling fertility and increasing longevity.
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Economic empowerment made-to-measure: How companies can benefit more people
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Connections, contexts, and capabilities can guide corporate efforts to create empowerment impact efficiently.
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A better life everyone can afford: Lifting a quarter billion people to economic empowerment
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Lowering the costs of basic goods and services to improve living standards.
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Help wanted: The long-term labor tightening trend by country
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Labor markets in the world’s eight largest economies have tightened significantly since 2010, although the character and...
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Help wanted: Charting the challenge of tight labor markets in advanced economies
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For almost two decades, labor markets across advanced economies have tightened—and the trend is set to continue. This article...
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Performance through people: Transforming human capital into competitive advantage
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A dual focus on developing people and managing them well gives a select group of companies a long-term performance edge.
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Overcoming the fear factor in hiring tech talent
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Providing the kind of experience and skill building that augments human capital can open up a much broader pool of candidates....

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