Endogenous Task Bundling, Skills and Automation, NBER Working Paper 35211 by Joshua S. Gans, examines how firms recombine activities after automation. The May 2026 paper argues that holding the pre-automation task bundle fixed can obscure which remaining human skills are rewarded. Its model shows that a wage regression based on a fixed bundle can misidentify the sign of an AI-exposure effect. This is a theoretical result, not a measured

Pay Transparency in Progress: Valuing Jobs, Closing Gender Pay Gaps, published by the OECD on 17 April 2026, reviews job evaluation, pay-gap reporting, pay auditing and pre-employment salary transparency. The organisation’s third stocktake describes existing arrangements and changes expected as countries implement further measures. The anticipated expansion by the end of 2026 is an expectation stated at publication, not a substitute for checking the rules applying to a particular