zanele munyikwa

Economist & researcher

Applied economics, measurement, and public research.

I turn large-scale data into economic insight through original research, new measures, and public writing. My work examines technological change, firms, and labor markets, with a current focus on AI.

Research Fellow at Cohere Labs · MIT PhD
Previously, Economist at Revelio Labs

 
Portrait of Zanele Munyikwa

Selected work

Where AI agents are being built

Cohere Labs · 2026

Mapping the tools developers build to the tasks people do, with the Agentic Task Ecosystem dataset.

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Economic insights & public writing

Revelio Labs · 2024–2026

Public research on how changing jobs affects pay and how earnings compare with household living costs.

Why switching jobs is no longer paying off

Writing assistance and hiring

Management Science · 2025

A field experiment with nearly half a million jobseekers examines how resume writing assistance affects hiring.

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