Johannes Koenig

Artificial intelligence may reduce the need for physically demanding tasks, but it could also erode job satisfaction, intensify cognitive load, and amplify anxiety. This column reports research on survey data from Germany, which finds no evidence that AI exposure has harmed workers’ mental health or subjective wellbeing. But looking at self-reported use of AI tools in the workplace, there are indications of declining life and job satisfaction. This suggests the need to expand current debates beyond AI’s impact on employment, productivity and wages: if it transforms work in ways that affect stress, autonomy, purpose, or health, these dimensions must become central to technology policy and labour regulation.

German survey data shows no evidence that #AI exposure has harmed workers' #mentalhealth or subjective #wellbeing. However, self-reported use of AI tools in the workplace points to indications of declining life and job satisfaction.
O Giuntella, L Stella, J König
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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21.07.2025 08:26 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3

🏬 📄 Is AI Actually Hurting Workers? New Study on How AI Affects Workers' Wellbeing

👥👏Congratulations to @osea.bsky.social, @jkoenig.bsky.social & @lucastella.bsky.social

HRD article 👉 www.hcamag.com/us/specializ...

VoxEU 👉 cepr.org/voxeu/column...

📑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#AIstudy

21.07.2025 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

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Truly excited about our paper in Labour Economics. It was great to work with @beckmannshook.bsky.social on this important topic. Message for policy makers: with a small data requirement we can differentiate between severe and moderate shocks, which have very different long-term consequences!

17.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely to see this paper in (electronic) print. 🥳

03.07.2025 10:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📢 New Research Alert!
I am very pleased that my co-authered work with @jkoenig.bsky.social is now published in the International Review of Financial Analysis.
📖 Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kb7N3mS%7...

#HouseholdFinance #WageRisk #InvestmentBehavior #PortfolioChoice #Econsky #Wealth

11.02.2025 14:57 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

IMA Workshop on Microsimulation practice in government - Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis *** Deadline extended to 10th February 2025 ***   The International Microsimulation Association (IMA), in collaboration with the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Centre for Microsimul...

The International Microsimulation Association together with the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) + the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA), is organising a Workshop on Microsimulation practice in government (online in April 2025)
www.microsimulation.ac.uk/about/news/2...

16.01.2025 08:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

INSIGHTS pieces: Inequality of Opportunity in Wealth: Levels, Trends, and Drivers by Daniel Graeber (SOEP/DIW), Viola Hilbert (SOEP/DIW), Johannes König (Bundesverwaltung)

🌍📊 The new INSIGHTS piece by @dangraeber.bsky.social, Viola Hilbert, and @jkoenig.bsky.social explores wealth inequality in Germany, revealing that 62% of it arises from factors beyond individual control, like parental background and geographic context. 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/insight/defa...

06.12.2024 14:32 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The dream team 🤩

20.11.2024 08:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a well deserved Noble Prize for Claudia Goldin 👏

It always makes me really happy when researchers who have been so influential for my own work are acknowledged this way 🥳

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