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I forgot to link this last week, but Jonathan Portes and I have a new paper about the disconnect between the UK’s labor force need for immigrants and the UK population’s concern about too much immigration. It was cited in this FT piece.
Global migration has tripled since 2000.
Speaking of migration, Lauren Thomas has a post about where migrants1 in the UK work and what they make. Her dataset is tech-biased but in general: they make a lot and live in London. Americans apparently are particularly likely to live in Kensington and Chelsea.2
I largely agree with this essay by Jason Crawford on using AI as a public intellectual.
There’s a new AI microsite - Europe 2031 is about what happens if Europe gets left behind in AI.5 Given recent developments with Fable, I wish this was less prescient…
There is a less serious version by Tim Hwang - he projects such things as “The High-Level Expert Group on Expert Groups delivers its finding: there are too many expert groups.”
Employed by Deel.
This makes me think less of my fellow Americans. East London > West London.
Maybe it will be able to in future, but it can’t right now.
No, really. I am not exactly probing new methodological frontiers on this blog; the goal is to make things understandable and interesting. This means being direct and to the point and, yes, making some jokes.
The authors also include some friends of the blog.