BERLIN, Nov. 16 -- German workers face a more uneven threat from artificial intelligence than a simple choice between mass unemployment and higher productivity. Research suggests the technology could leave overall employment broadly unchanged while shifting demand between industries, qualifications and generations, with younger workers facing particular difficulties entering the labour market.

Germany's Institute for Employment Research, known as IAB, offers a complicated picture. Its long-term modelling finds substantial job creation and destruction that largely cancel each other out. A separate analysis of employment records finds no general collapse in AI-exposed occupations through 2025, but identifies weaker outcomes among younger w...