Workshop on Firms, Technology, AI, and the Labor Market

Date: 5 December 2025, 09:30–15:30
Location: Ekonomikum, F433
Type: Workshop
Organiser: AISCAF

December 5th, AISCF will organize the workshop Firms, Technology, AI, and the Labor Market at the Department of Economics in Uppsala. The dual purpose of the workshop is to discuss different projects using our technology data base and to introduce our AISCAF leaders to the research done within the Department of Economics on topics related to AI and structural change.

Program

9:30-9:45: Oskar Nordström Skans – Welcome and introduction to AISCAF

9:45-10:20 Lovisa Rambjer – “Prediction versus Discretion: Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Assignment of Unemployed Jobseekers”

10:20-10:55 Adam Gill – “Assessing Work Content from Posted Vacancies in the Swedish Data“

[short break]

11:05-11:40 Aleksandr Gevorkian (UCLA) “Universities in Space”

[Lunch]

12:25-13:00 Lena Hensvik – “Firm Productivity and Attractiveness:

Evidence from Online Job Search Data”

13:00-13:35 Peter Fredriksson “Unemployment Insurance and Worker Selection into Unemployment”

[Short break]

13:45-14:20 Georg Graetz (Edinburgh) – “Strong Men at Work”

[End of Workshop]

14:30-15:30 Cluster Leadership Meeting (only for Oskar, Moa & Magnus)