AI Exposure Cuts Worker Mobility

Workers in occupations with high measured AI exposure are finding it harder to change jobs or find new employment, even as they shift tasks within their existing roles. This pattern comes from linked CPS and JOLTS analyses that combine workplace AI adoption indicators (OpenAI, Lightcast) with labor‑market flows. — If AI adoption systematically reduces job‑finding and switching for exposed groups, it changes the politics of retraining, unemployment policy, and geographic labor markets and merits targeted policy responses.