Assessing the impact of technological change on similar occupations: Implications for employment alternatives

K Torosyan, S Wang, EA Mack, JA Van Fossen… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background The fast-changing labor market highlights the need for an in-depth
understanding of occupational mobility impacted by technological change. However, we …

Division of labor, specialization and diversity in the ancient Roman cities: A quantitative approach to Latin epigraphy

V Kaše, P Heřmánková, A Sobotková - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Recent empirical studies on the division of labor in modern cities indicate a complex web of
relationships between sectoral specialization of cities and their productivity on one hand and …

Skill sets and wage premium: A network analysis based on Chinese agriculture online job offers

M Duan, Y Hou, B Zhang, C Chen, Y Sun, Y Luo… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Technology and globalization have significantly impacted the labor market, leading to
employment polarization and economic inequality. Yet, our comprehension of how …

The European skill space: a cross-country analysis of path-dependent capability development

S Walter, W Eum, JD Lee - Baltic Journal of Economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the skill structures of European countries and their transformations
from the perspective of capability development. The constructed skill space illustrates the …

Impacts of skill centrality on regional economic productivity and occupational income

K Waters, ST Shutters - Complexity, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A well‐developed perspective in the study of urban systems is that cities are complex
systems that manifest as networks of interdependent economic units. These units might be …

Resilience of urban economic structures following the great recession

ST Shutters, SS Kandala, F Wei, AP Kinzig - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The future sustainability of cities is contingent on economic resilience. Yet, urban resilience
is still not well understood, as cities are frequently disrupted by shocks, such as natural …

Industry interconnectedness and regional economic growth in Germany

ST Shutters, H Seibert, B Alm, K Waters - Urban Science, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today's social
issues. Yet they are also the global drivers of technological innovation, and thus it is critical …

Skills-approximate occupations: using networks to guide jobs retraining

K Waters, ST Shutters - Applied Network Science, 2022 - Springer
An issue often confronting economic development agencies is how to minimize
unemployment due to disruptions like technological change, trade wars, recessions, or other …

Regional economic tightness from rural to urban regions

K Waters, ST Shutters - Urban Transformations, 2022 - Springer
Regional economies are characterized by networks of interactions between individual
elements and are thus quintessential complex systems. Analyzing the relatedness of various …

Industrial structure and a tradeoff between productivity and economic resilience

ST Shutters, K Waters - Studies in Business and Economics, 2022 - sciendo.com
The structures of regional economies play a critical role in determining both a region's
productivity and its resilience to shocks. We extend previous work on the regional …