Katherine Stapleton

World Bank
Katherine Stapleton

Katherine Stapleton is an economist working on international trade, emerging technologies, labour economics, development and climate policy. She is currently Country Economist for China and Cambodia in the World Bank's Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice. She joined the World Bank in 2020 on the Young Professionals Program and have since worked in the Development Economics Research Group's Trade and International Integration unit and as Country Economist for Ghana.

She completed her PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford in September 2020, and is a Visiting Researcher at Oxford’s Center for the Study of African Economies and an External Research Fellow at the UK's Institute for the Future of Work. She was previously a Visiting Researcher at Stanford's Department of Economics, a Fellow of the Pathways for Prosperity Commission and a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute.

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आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस और सेवा-आधारित विकास : भारतीय नौकरी विज्ञापनों से साक्ष्य

भारत में नौकरियों की सबसे बड़ी वेबसाइट से रिक्तियों की ऑनलाइन सूचनाओं के एक नए डेटासेट का उपयोग करते हुए, कोपेस्टेक एवं अन्य, वर्ष 2016 के बाद से सेवा क्षेत्र में आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस से संबंधित कौशल की मांग में विकसित देशों में हुई प्रगति से मिलती-जुलती दसियों गुना वृद्धि को दर्शाते हैं । वे पाते हैं कि प्रतिष्ठानों द्वारा एआई कौशल की मांग का गैर-एआई पदों में श्रम की मांग और मजदूरी के शीर्ष प्रतिशतक पर नकारात्मक प्रभाव पड़ता है, जो उच्च-कौशल, प्रबंधकीय व्यवसायों और गैर-नियमित, बौद्धिक कार्यों के विस्थापन के कारण होता है।

16 June 2023
Productivity and Innovation
Productivity & Innovation

AI and services-led growth: Evidence from Indian job adverts

Using a new dataset of online vacancies from India’s largest jobs website, Copestake et al. document near-exponential growth in the demand for artificial intelligence-related skills in the services sector since 2016, coinciding with the take-off in developed countries. They find that the demand for AI skills by establishments has a negative impact on labour demand for non-AI roles and on the top percentile of wages, driven by the displacement of high-skilled, managerial occupations and non-routine, intellectual tasks.

19 April 2023
Productivity and Innovation
Productivity & Innovation
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