🎧 New CERUM #podcast "Det nya framtidslandet?": I join Elin Leyonberg to discuss how research on local economic shifts can guide policy and create better jobs. Listen 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/2tpw...

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Does it take extra skills to work in a large city? 🌆

In this new paper, we analyse online job vacancy data and find that jobs in large cities require more skills and a more diverse skill set, indicating a higher job complexity.

Open-acces paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS!
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122

Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

We also find that regions with higher rates of skill-related job switches see better economic outcomes. This underscores the importance of skill transferability and the power of dynamic labour markets in regional development. 9/9

While most Swedish municipalities exhibit above-average skill-coherence, regions with more diverse skill structures often have higher education levels and stronger economic performance. This points to the potential benefits of unrelated variety! 8/9

We find that workers do tend to switch more often between jobs with similar skill requirements. This strengthens the widespread use of labour flows to approximate human capital transferability between economic activities! 7/9

We visualise the job-job skill-relatedness as a network in which the clustering of both occupations (top) and industries (bottom) are evident. 6/9

We introduce a job-postings-based measure of skill-relatedness that is not reliant on labour mobility. An openly available job-job relatedness matrix accompanies the paper (see at link below)! 5/9

doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

Focusing on #Sweden, we combine job ads with register data to analyse the skill-similarity of jobs (industry-occupation combos), the coherence of local skill portfolios, and how these factors link to regional development at a granular spatial scale. 4/9

We argue that job ad data is a largely untapped opportunity to revisit old findings, overcome empirical bottlenecks, and pose new questions in regional research on skills. It allows us to refine and expand how we study skill-related dynamics. 3/9

Skills can be hard to define, identify, measure - yet almost everyone agrees on their crucial role in regional development. Our paper shows how large-scale job ad data can offer fresh insights into this “mystery”. 2/9

How can job advertisements help us understand skill-relatedness and economic performance in local labour markets? Find out in our latest paper with Martin Henning, Rikard Eriksson, Petrus Garefelt & Hanna Martin in @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social! 🧵1/9

doi.org/10.1080/2168...

I am very happy and honored to be included in the program of the Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks 2025. Very much looking forward to some excellent discussions. Hope to see you there!

🚨 Job alert 🚨

IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined!

Focuses include (among others):

1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science
2. Data Science in Biological Systems
3. Data Science in Human Mobility

it-u.at/en/careers/p... 1/2

🎉 Thrilled to announce our new study in Leadership Quarterly: "The Choice of Control Variables in Empirical Management Research: How Causal Diagrams Can Inform the Decision."

Here’s why this matters for leadership and management research—a thread; 🧵👇

Weak #institutions? Strengthen governance.
Strong institutions? Build political trust.
The economic formula for #Europe’s regions is clear: tailor reforms to context.
Governance drives efficiency & accountability; trust cements collaboration. Both fuel growth.
Article here: doi.org/10.1007/s001...

🚨Amenity complexity and urban locations of socio-economic mixing🚨 -- our paper is out in EPJ Data Science
We combine urban mobility data with economic complexity ideas to identify places where socio-economically diverse people are more likely to meet.