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  • Labor Market, Automation, Workforce, ARK Research, Labor market friction

    The Steep Cost of Labor Market Friction: $630 Billion

    November 12, 2015 | by Sam Korus, ARK Analyst | Industrial
    Mentioned Companies: AHEXY, CSOD, LNKD, MAN, RANJY, RHI, WDAY

    Friction in the labor market costs the U.S economy more than $630B per annum as shown in the chart below. Given ARK’s expectations for an acceleration in job turnover thanks to automation, this number should be expected to grow. Bad news? Not for everyone: these frictions present tremendous opportunity for companies that help firms reduce […]

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    History Teaches Us the Workforce Will Adapt to Automation

    October 24, 2014 | by David Conway, ARK Analyst | Industrial
    Mentioned Companies: AHEXY, CRM, CSOD, DV, LNKD, MAN, RHI, WDAY

    Automation improves productivity which, in the short-term, can hurt employment. Rapid changes in technology are beginning to impact every sector of the economy. Longer run, and counter-intuitively, automation should lead to a meaningful increase in employment, as opposed to the mass unemployment depicted in popular press. History offers reason for optimism for the U.S. workforce. Here […]

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    As the Cost of College Rises, Online Education Becomes a Promising Alternative

    June 02, 2014 | by David Conway, ARK Analyst | Digital
    Mentioned Companies: DV, MAN, RHI

    Classes, adventures, friendships… and debt. College experiences are universal but prices have increased significantly over the past forty years. As seen below, by 2013 a private college cost $40,917 per year, 2.5 times as much as it did in 1974. Can online education become a promising alternative? From 1973 to 2013, annual median household income remained […]

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