3 papers
cs.SI2026
The Changing Global Division of Labor in Software: Emergence and Diffusion of New Programming Skills across IT Hubs
Johannes Wachs, Xiangnan Feng, Simone Daniotti +1
With the rise of new industries, often new jobs emerge. Evolutionary Economic Geography and in particular Industry Life Cycle perspectives predict that these activities first emerg…
econ.GN2026
Using digital traces to analyze software work: skills, careers and programming languages
Xiangnan Feng, Johannes Wachs, Simone Daniotti +1
Recent waves of technological transformation are reshaping work in uncertain and hard-to-predict ways. However, jobs at the forefront of the digitizing economy offer an early glimp…
cs.CY2025
Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Simone Daniotti, Johannes Wachs, Xiangnan Feng +1
Generative coding tools promise big productivity gains, but uneven uptake could widen skill and income gaps. We train a neural classifier to spot AI-generated Python functions in o…