Ioannis Papadakis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Welcome! I am a research fellow at the Economics Department of the University of Sussex, a researcher at the CITP, and a visiting lecturer at the Imperial College Business School. In 2023, I received a PhD in economics from the Queen Mary University of London. Before coming to London, I received an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick. My research revolves around macro and labour economics. I study technical change and globalization, with an emphasis on wage inequality and economic performance. Among other positions, I have been fortunate to be a research assistant at the CEP's Growth Programme and a guest teacher at the LSE.
You can contact me at i.papadakis@sussex.ac.uk or i.papadakis@ic.ac.uk.
Latest news – since November 15th 2022:
presented at the Economics Department of the University of Athens, 2023
awarded the Sussex University Researcher Led Initiative Fund, 2023
presented at the CITP research seminar and at the CITP advisory board, 2023
NEW DRAFT!
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from US Commuting Zones
with G. Gancia, A. Bonfiglioli, R. Crinostarted as a visiting lecturer at the Imperial College Business School, 2023
awarded the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, 2023-2025
presented at a research seminar of the Bank of Greece, 2023
read my blog post "Economic stories beneath London pavements" on UCL's CTaLE website here, 2023
presentation at the European Trade Study Group (ETSG), University of Surrey, 2023 - cancelled
read my blog post on Discover Economics's website here, 2023
presented at the EEA-ESEM conference at Barcelona School of Economics, 2023
presented at the Workshop on Macroeconomic Implications of Migration at San Francisco FED (CA), 2023
presentation at the Migration & Organizations Conference at Columbia University (NY), 2023 - cancelled
presentation at the EALE Conference in Prague, 2023 - cancelled
presented at the Royal Economic Society and Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, 2023
presented at the CITP Inaugural Academic Conference, 2023
presented at the Economics PhD & Early Career Researchers Conference at University of Essex, 2023
awarded a £3K Research Culture Seed Fund by the University of Sussex, 2023
prepared a referee report for the academic journal Research Policy, 2023
passed my PhD viva with no revisions. Title: Technology, Work and Welfare.
Examiners: Guy Michaels (LSE) and Xavier Mateos-Planas (QMUL)presented at the 15th FIW (Research Centre International Economics) Research Conference, 2023
founded and began organizing the CITP - Reading Group, 2023
presented at a research seminar at the CITP, 2023
teaching Labour Economics and World Economy at the QMUL, 2022-2023
presented at a research seminar at the QMUL, 2022
presented at the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2022
presented at a PhD Research Day organized by KCL & Collège de France, 2022
Research Spotlight
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from US Commuting Zones
with G. Gancia, A. Bonfiglioli, R. Crino
ABSTRACT: We study the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on employment across US commuting zones over the period 2000-2020. A simple model shows that AI can automate jobs or complement workers, and illustrates how to estimate its effect by exploiting variation in a novel measure of local exposure to AI: job growth in AI-related professions built from detailed occupational data. Using a shift-share instrument that combines industry-level AI adoption with local industry employment, we estimate robust negative effects of AI exposure on employment across commuting zones and time. We find that AI's impact is different from other capital and technologies, and that it works through services more than manufacturing. Moreover, the employment effect is especially negative for low-skill and production workers, while it turns positive for workers at the top of the wage distribution. These results are consistent with the view that AI has contributed to the automation of jobs and to widen inequality.
Browse Through My Work
Here you can find a brief overview of my RESEARCH and TEACHING pages:
Publications
Robots, Offshoring, and Welfare, [Paper]
with G. Gancia, A. Bonfiglioli, R. Crino
“Robots and AI: a New Economic Era”, 2022
(eds. Lili Yan Ing and Gene M. Grossman), Oxon and New York: Routledge
Working Papers
Technical Change from the Top: The Role of Director Nationality in Importing Robots, 2022
The Labour Lock-in Effect of Automation: Evidence from Patents in Local US Labour Markets
The Geography of Routine-Biased Technical Change: Wages and Labor demand Shifts
Work in Progress
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from US Commuting Zones
with A. Bonfiglioli, G. Gancia, and R. Crino. . .
Prior to the PhD
Deciphering the Corporate Saving Glut, 2017 - M.Sc. theses
Τα υγειονομικά cluster ως τρόπος επέκτασης των Σ.Δ.Ι.Τ., 2015
with N. Prodromidis
- 2nd prize award in the 21st contest of Economia Group
Contribution Acknowledgements
Importing Inequality: Migration, Mobility, and the Top 1 percent, 2020
Authors: A. Advani, F. Koenig, L. Pessina and A. SummersLessons from the implementation and evaluation
of the Greater London Authority “Grow with AI” programme, 2021
Authors: A. Valero, C. Riom and J. Oliveira-CunhaCovid Furloughs and Employment in the UK
Authors: T. Lee, P. Cesana
Lectures
Imperial College Business School
Imperial College Business School
Strategy and Economics for Innovation, 2024
Queen Mary University of London
Labour Economics - UG level, 2022
Mathematics and Statistics – Pre-sessional, PG level, 2019
Tutorials
Queen Mary University of London
Macro for Policy – PG level, 2021-2022
World Economy – UG level, 2020-2022
Labour Economics – UG level, 2020 and 2022 Principal Tutor, 2020-2023
Intermediate Macroeconomics – UG level, 2019 Principal Tutor, 2018-2019
London School of Economics and Political Science
Microeconomic Principles 1 – UG level, Lecturer: Prof. Tim Besley, 2021
References
Gino Gancia
Professor in Economics,
Queen Mary University of London
Phone: +44 207 882 8051
Email: g.gancia@qmul.ac.uk
Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee
Reader in Economics
Queen Mary University of London
Phone: +44 20 7882 3997
Email: sylee.tim@qmul.ac.uk
Anna Raute
Senior Lecturer
Queen Mary University of London
Phone: +44 207 882 8051
Email: a.raute@qmul.ac.uk
Anna Valero
Senior Policy Fellow and
Deputy Director of the POID
Centre for Economic Performance –
London School of Economics
Phone: +44 20 7955 6975
Email: a.a.sivropoulos-valero@lse.ac.uk