Posting Description

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE 1/ RESEARCH ASSISTANT, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Econ, to provide research assistance in the following areas: Technology Adoption, the identification of adoption bottlenecks, such as, workforce skills, firm size, and other factors and understanding the market forces and technological factors that (dis-)incentivize AI/technology adoption; and Performance and competitive effects of AI/technology, studying the impact of AI/technology adoption on firm performance/productivity, understanding the effects of AI/technology adoption on reallocation processes/business dynamism, the impact of AI/technology on performance differences between firms, the relationship between AI/technology adoption and market power in output and input markets. Will spend significant time in preparing and analyzing firm- and firm-worker-level data to study the above topics.

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