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How AI is impacting Brazil’s young workers
Since generative AI has become ubiquitous, the job market has grown tougher for young workers. Photo: Emiliano Vittoriosi/Unsplash
For decades, the unspoken contract of early careers was straightforward: endure the grunt work, earn the mentorship, climb the ladder. AI is now unraveling that deal.
New research by Daniel Duque, an economist at the Brazilian Institute of Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-IBRE), draws on household survey data to document the effects of AI that are already being felt by new entrants to the workforce.
Young Brazilians between 18 and 29 working in professions most exposed to generative IA — information services, finance or software, among others — face a…
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