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articleStem: "hbr-edu-35-ai-changing-labor-market"
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sourceTitle: "Research: How AI Is Changing the Labor Market"
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# Saleh Zakerinia

**Role in source:** Co-author of the underlying research; named as a contributor but not directly quoted in the article.

**Profile:** Saleh Zakerinia is a researcher (economics) affiliated with **Ohio State University** and a co-author of the working paper [[entity-displacement-or-complementarity-paper|"Displacement or Complementarity? The Labor Market Impact of Generative AI"]], focused on empirical labor-market analysis of generative AI.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:** Co-authorship of the empirical analysis underpinning [[claim-post-chatgpt-demand-shift]] and the [[framework-task-categorization-scoring|augmentation-scoring methodology]]. Collaborates with [[entity-suraj-srinivasan|Suraj Srinivasan]] and [[entity-wilbur-xinyuan-chen|Wilbur Xinyuan Chen]].

**Canonical reference:** Author listing on the working paper and Ohio State University Economics department profile.