Lea Samek

Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques

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Lea Samek is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, labor economics, and human capital development. Her scholarship focuses primarily on understanding how AI and automation are reshaping workforce demands, skill requirements, and employment patterns in advanced economies. Samek's most influential contribution, "The Human Capital Behind AI" (2021), drew on Burning Glass Technologies' job postings data across the United States and United Kingdom to illuminate the specific "skills bundles" employers seek in AI-related roles, with a particular emphasis on open-source competencies — work that has accumulated 24 citations and built meaningfully on OECD research frameworks. Her 2023 chapter "AI Human Capital, Jobs and Skills" deepened this line of inquiry by synthesizing the broader literature on how AI-driven task shifts are unevenly affecting workers across sectors and skill levels. Complementing these contributions, her methodological work on AI patent analysis offers a data-driven lens for mapping the technological core of modern AI advances. Together, Samek's research provides policymakers, educators, and economists with evidence-based tools to anticipate and respond to the rapidly evolving demands of an AI-transformed labor market.