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Events

Conference & seminars

The lab runs two things. Its flagship is an annual, interdisciplinary conference on AI and white-collar work, held since 2020 at Katrinelund on Lake Hjälmaren near Örebro. Alongside it runs a monthly online brown-bag seminar series, part of AISCAF. For publications, media, grants and people since 2019, see the news archive.

Flagship · next conference · 5th AIEL conference

The Impact of AI on White-Collar Work.

14–15 June 2028 · Katrinelund, near Örebro, Sweden. Hosted by AI-Econ Lab · Örebro University · Ratio · WASP-HS AISCAF. Organisers: Lodefalk, Kyvik-Nordås, Längkvist, Schroeder, Görg.

  • Call for papers expected September 2027; abstracts (max 300 words) to ai.econlab.event (at) gmail (dot) com.
  • Deadlines: abstracts 17 Apr 2028, decisions 29 Apr, registration 28 May, papers to discussants 1 Jun.
  • 12 papers; 35-min presentations with a 10-min discussant and 15-min discussion; every presenter also discusses.
  • Sponsors: Handelsbanken Research Foundations (tbc) and WASP-HS.
Katrinelund conference venue on Lake Hjälmaren near Örebro
Katrinelund, on Lake Hjälmaren near Örebro, has hosted the conference since 2020.
Earlier conferences
4th conference10–11 June 2026
AI and White-Collar Work
Katrinelund, Örebro. 27 participants, 12 papers; keynotes by Michael Lechner (St. Gallen) and Christina Gathmann (LISER / Luxembourg). Call for papers Programme
3rd conference12–13 June 2024
AI and White-Collar Work
Katrinelund, Örebro. 11 papers; an interdisciplinary workshop with participants from eight countries and four disciplines. Call for papers Programme
2nd conference15–16 June 2022
AI and White-Collar Work
Katrinelund, Örebro. 12 papers; participants from three continents and four disciplines. Call for papers Programme
TIISA 2021 conference8–12 November 2021
Trade and the Digital Transformation of Services
Örebro · Stockholm · online. 14 papers, 3 keynotes (Christen, Walden, Kortum), a panel and a roundtable including Richard Baldwin and Lucian Cernat.
1st conference25 November 2020
The Impact of AI on White-Collar Work
online. The inaugural digital conference; keynotes by Anna Salomons (Utrecht) and Morgan Frank (Pittsburgh / MIT). Call for papers Programme

Seminar series

AIEL brown-bag seminar series.

Since 2024 the AI-Econ Lab arranges a monthly, virtual brown-bag lunch research seminar. From autumn 2025 it is part of the Swedish research cluster on AI, Structural Change and the Future of Work (AISCAF), funded by WASP-HS. Internal or invited external researchers present work-in-progress and get feedback from colleagues.

Upcoming
2026-10-09
Kristina Palm Karlstad UniversityWorking with robots — from a work-environment perspective
2026-11-13
Joelle Saad-Lessler Stevens Institute of TechnologyTo be announced
2026-12-11
Dennis Facius & Roberto Iacono EUI · NTNUTo be announced
2027-02-12
TBDTo be announced
2027-03-12
TBDTo be announced
2027-04-09
TBDTo be announced
2027-05-14
TBDTo be announced
Previous seminars (15)
2026-09-11
Carlo Pizzinelli International Monetary FundLabor Market Exposure to AI: Cross-country Differences and Distributional Implicationswith Augustus Panton (IMF), Marina Mendes Tavares (IMF), Mauro Cazzaniga (MIT Sloan) and Longji Li (IMF)
Abstract

We propose an extension to occupation-level measures of Artificial Intelligence (AI) exposure, accounting for AI's potential as either a complement or a substitute for labor, where complementarity reflects lower risks of job displacement. We validate the classification on US Commuting Zones (CZs) using a large dataset on online job postings. CZs with greater employment in industries with greater AI adoption have witnessed a relatively larger decline in the share of vacancies in high-exposure low-complementarity occupations since 2019. Using worker-level microdata from 2 Advanced Economies (AEs) and 4 Emerging Markets (EMs), we find that AEs feature higher employment shares in high-exposure occupations, roughly evenly distributed between high- and low-complementarity jobs. Within countries, common patterns emerge in AEs and EMs, showing unevenly distributed risks and opportunities. Women and highly educated workers face greater occupational exposure to AI, at both high and low complementarity. Higher-earning workers are more likely to be in occupations with high exposure but also high potential complementarity.

Slides
2026-05-08
Tomáš Oleš University of Economics, BratislavaTo be announced
2026-04-10
Joonas Tuhkuri Stockholm UniversityTo be announced
2026-03-13
Mariola Pytlikova CERGE-EI, PragueWho Adopts AI? Evidence on Firms, Technologies and Workers
2025-12-12
Fredrik Heinz Linköping UniversityEuropean Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda for AI, data and robotics
2025-11-14
Malin Heintz Swedish Public Employment ServiceDigitalisation and Labor Demand in Female-Dominated Occupations: Evidence from Swedish Vacancy Ads
2025-10-10
Charlotta Kronblad University of GothenburgAlgorithmic injustice and multilayered blackboxing
2025-05-09
Peter Njekwa Ryberg Jönköping International Business SchoolToss a Coin to your Robot: The Automation and Augmentation of Tasks in Firms
2025-04-04
Magdalena Ramstedt Stadin Uppsala UniversityAI and working environment
2025-02-07
Kerstin Enflo Lund UniversityPower for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes
2025-01-10
Mark Hellsten Aarhus University · RatioAutomation and skill demand: Evidence from Denmark
2024-12-13
Mark Granberg Ratio · Örebro UniversityHeterogeneous wage and employment premia of AI adoption? Evidence from Sweden
2024-11-29
Tomáš Oleš University of Economics, BratislavaImpact of Robots and Artificial Intelligence on Wages and Skill Demand: Evidence from the UK
2024-09-20
Emilie Vestergaard University of CopenhagenThe Adoption of ChatGPT (with Anders Humlum)
Attending
  • Monthly, online via Zoom
  • 12:00–13:00 CET (12:30–13:30 from autumn 2026)
  • 35–40 minutes presentation, then Q&A
  • Slots by invitation, first-come-first-served

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Contact: Magnus Lodefalk, firstname.surname (at) oru (dot) se

News

Latest from the lab.

Publications, media, grants and people. The 8 most recent items; the full record since 2019 is in the news archive.

Sep 6 2026The DAIOE measure was published as an open, citable dataset: occupation-year AI-exposure scores for 2010–2023 with a 2024 refresh, on five occupational classifications (O*NET-SOC, SOC, ISCO-08, SSYK 96, SSYK 2012), together with the full construction pipeline and documentation. Zenodo (DOI)Pipeline & documentation
Aug 12 2026The AIEL Monitor launched, on the lab's own domain and with a rebuilt website: open, dated indicators on AI and work across countries, with Sweden in depth, refreshed from public data. The first issue of the monthly AIEL Monitor Brief was published the same day, on barriers to AI use. The MonitorMonthly brief
Jun 24 2026The paper "Artificial Intelligence for Public Use" (Lodefalk, Engberg, Lidskog, Skargren & Tang) was accepted for publication in Digital Society.
Jun 17 2026A column was published in ProMarket (Stigler Center, Chicago Booth), "AI Is Not Reducing Employment but Rather Who Gets Hired" (Lodefalk, Löthman, Koch & Engberg), drawing on the "Same Storm, Different Boats" paper. ProMarket
Jun 10–11 2026The fourth conference on AI and white-collar work was held at Katrinelund outside Örebro: 27 participants, 12 papers, keynotes by Michael Lechner (St. Gallen) and Christina Gathmann (LISER / Luxembourg). Dates set for the AIEL/AISCAF 2028 conference, 14–15 June 2028.
Apr 2026Research grant from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse, 1 MSEK.
Mar 27 2026ORU working paper released: "Who Adopts AI? Evidence on Firms, Technologies and Workers" (Pulito, Pytlikova, Schroeder & Lodefalk). ORU WP
Mar 16 2026ORU and Ratio working papers released: "Same Storm, Different Boats: Generative AI and the Age Gradient in Hiring" (Lodefalk, Löthman, Koch & Engberg), with an accompanying op-ed with the labour-market partners' AI council in DN. ORU WPRatio WPDN op-ed

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