A survey by researcher Daniel Duque, from Ibre-FGV, shows that young people aged 18 to 29 in professions most exposed to artificial intelligence are 4.8% less likely to be working and earn 7% less than they would have before the technology became popular.
The study crossed data from the Continuous PNAD between the end of 2022 and the second quarter of 2025 and found no significant changes for workers aged 30 to 59. Preliminary research by USP shows a 4.7% drop in wages for young people aged 16 to 21 in the most exposed occupations.
Work by Stanford and King's College London with companies in 41 countries showed that vacancies grew 6.7% at the top of the hierarchy and fell 3% among juniors after the adoption of AI. In Brazil, the 37% informality helps explain the greater impact on wages than on the total number of employed people.
