Project description

Recent developments and the rapid adoption of Artificial intelligence (AI) bring a great potential to transform industries. The technology changes the nature of work by enhancing human capabilities; it brings opportunities for innovation and productivity increases. Yet, it is also expected to have large and complex labor market consequences (Acemoglu and Restrepo 2020). The research project aims to contribute to our understanding of the role of AI adoption by firms and workers in changing labor market and inequality using comprehensive register-based and survey data from Denmark.

Short Bio

Before joining AIAS, Aarhus University as an AIAS-PIREAU Fellow, Mariola Pytliková worked as an Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) and as Associate Professor (Docent) at CERGE, Charles University Prague. She was previously a Senior Researcher at the VSB Technical University Ostrava, as well as a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute of Governmental Research (KORA), and an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University. She received her PhD in Economics from ASB, Aarhus University in 2006. In the past, she held visiting stays at Princeton University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and Universität Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her research interests are in the field of labor economics, in particular on topics dealing with international migration, ethnic workforce diversity, gender pay gap and income inequality. Recently she has worked on issues within the research area of migration determinants with a focus on the role of political and environmental factors, language, native’s attitudes, labor market laws in international migration. Further she has investigated impacts of immigrant diaspora and ethnic diversity on firm outcomes such as productivity, innovation and foreign direct investment. She has published in outlets such as the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Population Economics, International Migration Review, and European Journal of Population among others.

She is a recipient of Kateřina Šmídková’s Award for the best Czech female economist in 2015 and the 2005 Young Economist Award from the Czech Economic Society.