5 papers
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…
Large cities lose their growth advantage as countries urbanize
Andrea Musso, Diego Rybski, Dirk Helbing +1
The share of the world population living in cities with more than one million people rose from 11% in 1975 to 24% in 2025 (our estimates). Will this trend towards greater concentra…
Green building blocks reveal the complex anatomy of climate change mitigation technologies
Yang Li, Frank Neffke
Achieving net-zero emissions requires rapid innovation, yet the necessary technological knowhow is scattered across industries and countries. Comparing functionally similar green a…
Synthesis of innovation and obsolescence
Edward D. Lee, Christopher P. Kempes, Manfred D. Laubichler +14
Innovation and obsolescence describe the dynamics of ever-churning social and biological systems, from the development of economic markets to scientific and technological progress…
Skill dependencies uncover nested human capital
Moh Hosseinioun, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang +1
Modern economies require increasingly diverse and specialized skills, many of which depend on the acquisition of other skills first. Here we analyse US survey data to reveal a nest…