Sergei Guriev
assesses the strength of the Russian president’s grip on power, predicts that Xi Jinping’s embrace of personalist rule will lead to policy missteps, urges the West to pursue a strategy of “adversarial engagement” toward modern dictators, and more.
Artificial intelligence is being designed and deployed by corporate America in ways that will disempower and displace workers and degrade the consumer experience, ultimately disappointing most investors. Yet economic history shows that it does not have to be this way.
worry that the technology will be deployed to replace, rather than empower, humans.
华盛顿特—美国劳动力市场正在繁荣。在过去六个月中,美国经济平均每月增加 465,000 个净工作岗位——截至 7 月,已经恢复了在大流行期间失去的所有工作岗位——而失业率下降了0.3个百分点。 当前3.5%的失业率,与 2020 年初劳动力市场紧张时的水平一样低。
不幸的是,劳动力参与率讲述了一个不同的故事。该指标为 62.1%,比 2020 年 2 月,即新冠疫情开始重创美国经济的前一个月的水平低 1.3 个百分点,。尽管劳动力参与率已从 2020 年 4 月的低点回升了近两个百分点,但在今年以来一直停滞不前。
诚然,大部分下降是由相对年长的工人推动的。提前退休和人口老龄化使 55 岁以上人群的劳动力参与率降低至 38.7%,比 2020 年 2 月的水平低 1.6 个百分点。更糟糕的是,高盛的经济学家估计,人口老龄化可能会继续使参与率每年降低 0.2 个百分点。
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