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Dr. Tobias Sytsma

Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.

Automation, trade, and labor.

Associate Economist

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Dr. Tobias Sytsma is a researcher in Futurecraft's RAND Network, the world's most trusted intellectual access layer, anchored in 75 years of RAND policy methodology and continuously verified against primary sources (last verified 2026-06-05).

Associate Economist at RAND focused on automation, trade, and the labor-market effects of technology adoption.

Their work spans 1 research domain on Futurecraft, Future of Work, and connects to live Question Networks, Strategic Salons, and Research-to-Reality opportunities organized around those domains.

Biography

Associate Economist at RAND focused on automation, trade, and the labor-market effects of technology adoption.

Research Domains

Key Work

  • , RAND studies on automation and U.S. labor markets
  • , Research on trade and worker outcomes
  • , Empirical work on AI adoption inside firms

Suggested Collaboration Questions

  • Where is AI adoption inside firms most likely to displace tasks before institutions adjust to absorb workers?
  • Which labor-market effects of automation are visible only at the regional rather than national level?
  • What does honest measurement of AI's labor-market impact require that current data systems can't yet deliver?

Source Attribution

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