Simon Bunel

Chercheur postdoctorant au Stone Centre de l'INSEAD

Domaine d'expertise

IA
Travail
Changement technologique

Biographie

Simon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Stone Centre at INSEAD and an adjunct professor in the Department of Economics at École Normale Supérieure.

His research focuses on innovation, technological change, economic growth, and labor markets, with particular attention to how automation and artificial intelligence affect productivity, employment, and the organization of work.

He is the co-author, with Philippe Aghion and Céline Antonin, of The Power of Creative Destruction, which received the Prix Turgot for collective works and the AFSE Essay Book Prize in 2021. He also served as a rapporteur for the French Artificial Intelligence Commission’s 2024 report, AI: Our Ambition for France.

Dernières publications

- IA
- Travail et emploi
- Croissance
- Politiques publiques
- Working Paper
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Automation on Employment: A Survey of the Recent Literature

In this article, we survey the recent literature and discuss two contrasting views on the direct and indirectimpacts of automation on employment. A first view predicts that firms that automation reduceemployment (a negative “direct effect”), even if this may ultimately result in new job creations takingadvantage of the lower equilibrium wage induced by job destructions […]
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Publiée

2022
- Destruction créatrice
- Dynamique des entreprises
- Croissance
- Publication
Firm Dynamics and Growth Measurement in France

In this paper we use the same methodology as Aghion et al. (2017) to compute missing growth estimates from creative destruction in France. We find that from 2004 to 2015, about 0.5 percentage point of real output growth per year is missed by the statistical office, which is about the same as what was found in […]
Écrit par
- Philippe Aghion
- Antonin Bergeaud
- Simon Bunel
- Timo Boppart
Publiée

August 2018
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- Automatisation
- Travail
- Productivité
- Publication
Modern Manufacturing Capital, Labor Demand, and Product Market Dynamics: Evidence from France

This paper estimates the labor and product market effects of a fall in the cost of investments inmodern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technologies. Causal effects areestimated with a shift-share IV design leveraging pre-determined supply linkages and produc-tivity shocks. At both the firm and industry levels, we find that capital investments lead tohigher labor demand, […]
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- IA
- Travail et emploi
- Productivité
- Publication
How Different Uses of AI Shape Labor Demand: Evidence from France

Using French firm-level data on AI adoption from 2017–2020, we find that, first, firms adopting AI are larger and more productive and skill intensive. Second, difference-in-difference estimates reveal an increase in firm-level employment and sales after AI adoption, suggesting that the induced productivity gains allow firms to grow and outweigh potential displacement effects. Third, occupations […]
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Publiée

May 2025
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- Automatisation
- Marché du travail
- Productivité
- Publication
The Local Labor Market Effects of Modern Manufacturing Capital: Evidence from France

Using an event study methodology and comprehensive micro data from the French manufacturing sector, we analyze the local labor market effects of investments in modern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technologies. We estimate that commuting zones with higher investments in modern manufacturing capital and automation benefit from higher labor demand, with an increase in both […]
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May 2023
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