Georg Graetz

Working papers

Firm-Level Technology Adoption in Times of Crisis, with Melanie Arntz, Michael Böhm, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer, and Cäcilia Lipowski. September 2024, submitted.

Imperfect Signals, June 2024, submitted. 

Publications

Parental Education and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores, with Björn Öckert and Oskar Nordström Skans. Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.

Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline, with Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Sofia Hernnäs, and Guy Michaels. Economic Journal, August 2023.

Gender Gap Variation across Assessment Types: Explanations and Implications, with Arizo Karimi. Economics of Education Review, December 2022.

On the Interpretation of Diploma Wage Effects Estimated by Regression Discontinuity Designs, Canadian Journal of Economics, February 2021.

Training Requirements, Automation, and Job Polarization, with Andy Feng. Economic Journal, October 2020.

Robots at Work, with Guy Michaels. Review of Economics and Statistics, December 2018 (lead article). 

A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes, with Andy Feng. Economics of Education Review, December 2017.

Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?, with Guy Michaels. American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2017. 

Media & policy 

Policy reports

• Konjunkturrådets rapport 2023. Strukturomvandling på svensk arbetsmarknad: konsekvenser och policyåtgärder, with Peter Fredriksson, Lena Hensvik, and David Seim. SNS Förlag, January 2023. English summary 

• Technological Change and the Swedish Labor Market, report prepared for the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council, January 2020. 

• Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future, report prepared for the European Commission, October 2019.
  
  

Popular summaries 

• "Imperfect signals" summarized at LSE Blogs

• Q&A on labor market effects of artificial intelligence for Science Media Center Germany (in German)

• "Individual consequences of occupational decline" summarized at VoxEU

• "Robots at work" summarized at VoxEU, IZA Newsroom, and SNS (in Swedish)

• "Is modern technology responsible for jobless recoveries?" summarized at VoxEU, IZA Newsroom
  
  

Media coverage

• "Explaining gender gap variation across assessment forms" covered by Dagens Arena 

• "Robots at work" covered by Bloomberg Business, Brookings, Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish), FT.com, Harvard Business Review, Kennislink (in Dutch), MIT Technology Review, The Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ZEIT ONLINE (in German)

• "Is modern technology responsible for jobless recoveries?" covered by Bloomberg View

• "A question of degree" covered by BBC News, The Telegraph, Times Higher Education
  
  

Policy citations

• "Robots at work" cited in 2016 Economic Report of the President, WTO's World Trade Report 2017, 2019 Economic Report of the President