Following the sudden expansion of telework across the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study reveals a widespread increase in the prevalence of work from home across EU countries, regions, and territorial typologies. While telework rates have slightly receded from their peak at the height...

Are workers with poor outside opportunities less responsive and more susceptible to negative demand shifts in routine occupations? To answer this, I create and estimate an occupation specialization index (OSI) using Swedish register data and machine learning tools. It measures the expected...

Over the last forty years, Latin American countries (LACs) have experienced a variety of specialization trajectories, while sharing a common pattern of weak and unstable growth. Given the accelerated premature deindustrialization path and the loss of productive capacity, manufacturing has...

Who will gain and who will lose as AI automates tasks? While much of the discourse focuses on job displacement, we show that job transformation - a shift in the task content of jobs - creates large and heterogeneous earnings effects. We develop a quantitative, task-based model where occupations...

I study how the rise in working from home (WFH) affects the gender division of paid and unpaid labor (caregiving, domestic tasks). Identification uses differences in individuals' exposure to the Covid-induced WFH shock, measured by the WFH feasibility of their job in 2019. Using panel data from...

Following the sudden expansion of telework across the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study reveals a widespread increase in the prevalence of work from home across EU countries, regions, and territorial typologies. While telework rates have slightly receded from their peak at the height...

Theory offers conflicting predictions on whether and how lenders' sectoral specialization would affect firms' innovation activities. We show that the sign and magnitude of this effect vary with the degree of "asset overhang" across sectors, which is the risk that a new technology has negative...

Suddenly it appears that the natural environment is at the front of sociologists' minds.1 It's an exciting moment, but it's also a bit awkward. Environmental sociologists, alongside other environmental social scientists in adjacent disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, have been working on...

As gender equality is the basis for realizing social-environmental-economic sustainability, inequality in gender can significantly hamper economic productivity and negatively affect individuals' lives. This study examines the desired attitudes towards gender norms that can be used to improve...

This study examines how the Covid-19 pandemic-induced shift towards remote work has influenced parents' allocation of non-market and market work. Utilizing a probabilitybased panel survey and comprehensive administrative records from the Netherlands covering the years 2014 to 2021, we...

Why can complex knowledge be produced in some places but not in others? Regional knowledge complexity possesses a powerful explanatory and predictive capacity for regional innovation and economic development, yet the mechanisms underlying the formation of regional knowledge complexity remain...

In the current context, where a large part of international trade in goods and services is linked to global production chains, the policy course to reap the gains from this trade differs according to the point of view adopted. While from a country's point of view, the strategy is to join global...

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

In this study, we use the data of listed firms in China to investigate the influence of informal institution, namely Confucian culture, on the firms’ participation in the professional division of labor. We find that the stronger the firms are influenced by Confucian culture, firms are more...

We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999-2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...

Prior research on auditor industry specialization documents fee premiums for local audit offices that are industry specialists. This research assumes that the effects of specialization are uniform across markets. We examine industry specialization based on the economic theory of industry...

Specialization leads to efficient production structures generating welfare gains, while the resulting interconnectedness of countries spread shocks more rapidly rendering the global economic system more volatile. This paper applies the framework of Ecological Network Analysis on global...

The long-standing view in US economic history is that the shift in manufacturing in the nineteenth century from the artisan shop to the mechanized factory led to “labor deskilling.” Craft workers were displaced by mix of semi-skilled operatives, unskilled workers, and a small force of...