Post-Labour Economics

Module 3 — What Could Go Wrong

Lesson 12: Inequality and Within-Firm Compression

Last updated: 2026-04-25

The most striking recent finding about AI is not that it erases jobs outright. It is that it reshapes who, inside a firm, captures the gains from the work — and the winners and losers are not who most people expected.

Lesson 12: Inequality and Within-Firm Compression

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Compression inside, divergence outside

12 min

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