Observed arrival · 2026-10-23
Purgatory: a model of AI’s worker income gap
An interactive model for exploring how AI-driven productivity, labor-market responses, and policy could affect workers’ incomes across countries.
- For
- Readers modeling AI displacement and income policy
- Worth noticing
- The chart separates wages, existing safety nets, AI dividends, and capital income; its dates are labeled illustrative, not forecasts.
Field notes
Controls let readers choose a country, AI takeoff, redeployment policy, and worker outcome (keeps job, rehired, or not rehired), then adjust finer assumptions. The method describes adoption with a logistic curve and labor-share changes through automation and new-task creation, drawing on Acemoglu and Restrepo alongside cited labor and benefits sources. The page says dates shift with uncertain assumptions—including AI growth and new job creation—so its outputs are scenarios, not forecasts.
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