{
    "statement": "lower employment for US workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed jobs than if they had kept pace with peers in less-exposed jobs (June 2026)",
    "value_display": "19%",
    "value_numeric": 19,
    "unit": "%",
    "data_label": "Jun 2026",
    "data_period_end": "2026-06-30",
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "Stanford Digital Economy Lab",
        "publisher": "Stanford University",
        "type": "study",
        "url": "https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/canariesaug26/",
    "source_quote": "Employment among workers ages 22-25 in highly AI-exposed occupations now stands about 19% below where it would be if it had kept pace with employment among similarly aged workers in less-exposed occupations.",
    "verification_note": "Read on digitaleconomy.stanford.edu (12 Aug 2026 revision of \"Canaries in the Coal Mine?\", Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen) on 2026-10-23. The original (SIEPR page, Aug 2025) reported a 13% relative decline with firm controls; on the revised measure the gap was 15% at the July 2025 data vintage. ADP payroll data; descriptive, not causal.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-08-12",
            "kind": "method_change",
            "value_display": "19%",
            "note": "Revised paper: on its updated measure the gap was 15% at the July 2025 data vintage and 19% as of June 2026."
        },
        {
            "happened_on": "2025-08-26",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "13%",
            "note": "Original paper (Aug 2025, siepr.stanford.edu): \"a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks\"."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai/young-workers-ai-exposed-employment-gap",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai/young-workers-ai-exposed-employment-gap.csv"
}