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Registry 01 · Domain
Future of Work
Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.
Which forms of human work become more valuable, not less.
Classification
Research domain
Cross-disciplinary index
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Context record
Future-of-work research at RAND asks which forms of human work become more valuable, not less, under sustained automation, demographic shift, and the diffusion of general-purpose AI.
RAND's economists and workforce researchers have produced continuous work on automation, labor-market institutions, and the firm-level adoption decisions that determine who actually experiences technological change as opportunity or displacement.
RAND's Signature Themes in Future of Work
Automation and labor demand
Which tasks and occupations are augmented, displaced, or revalued as AI and robotics diffuse.
Workforce transformation
Reskilling, credentialing, and the institutional pathways that allow workers to move between sectors as demand shifts.
Trade and labor
How trade and offshoring interact with technological change to shape regional and occupational labor outcomes.
Firm adoption decisions
Why firms adopt, or fail to adopt, productivity-enhancing technology, and the labor consequences of each path.
Representative Work
Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?
RAND · CT-499
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Labor Market
RAND · ongoing
Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market
RAND · ongoing
Methodological Emphasis
Applied microeconomics, occupational task analysis, and firm-level surveys of technology adoption.
Methodological Lineage →Affiliated Researchers