AI & Jobs AI Isn't Firing Junior Workers — It's Just Not Hiring Them. A Harvard Paper Tracking 62 Million Workers Has the Receipt.
A Harvard working paper covering 62 million U.S. workers across 285,000 firms finds that at companies adopting generative AI, junior hiring drops 7.7% within six quarters — driven not by layoffs but by a silent freeze on new positions. Axios reran the numbers on April 21.
