We use a data-driven methodology to quantify the importance of different skills in performing green tasks, aiming to estimate the green potential of occupations in Switzerland. By this we mean the potential of an occupation to be able to perform green tasks on the basis of the skills attributed...

In this paper, we use a data-driven approach to predict the "green potential" of ISCO occupations based on their corresponding skills. With this information, we can investigate the relationship between environmental regulations and occupation-level employment in the manufacturing sector of 19...

We use a data-driven approach to predict the "green potential" of ISCO occupations based on their corresponding skills. This information allows us to investigate the relationship between environmental regulations and occupation-level employment in the manufacturing sector of 19 European...

We use a data-driven approach to predict the "green potential" of ISCO occupations based on their corresponding skills. This information allows us to investigate the relationship between environmental regulations and occupation-level employment in the manufacturing sector of 19 European...

German Abstract: Die Bevölkerungsstruktur wird sich in den nächsten Jahrzehnten bedeutend verändern: Gemäss den Bevölkerungsszenarien des Bundesamts für Statistik wird der Altersquotient in der Schweiz (Anteil der über-64-Jährigen in Relation zu den 20- bis 64-Jährigen) von 30% im Jahr...

Technologies evolve at different paces and their rate of improvement varies considerably. We demonstrate that the fastest technological progress currently occurs in the digital domain and empirically investigate the relationship between technologies' improvement rates and breakthrough...

Despite tremendous growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge, the popular press has recently raised concerns that disruptive innovative activity is slowing. These dire prognoses were mainly driven by Park et al. (2023), a Nature publication that uses decades of data and...

We examine whether 'pioneer' regions - early leaders in generating new ideas in emerging scientific fields - develop and maintain an innovation advantage in the same fields over time. Our analysis covers 24 disruptive technologies (e.g. AI, cloud computing) in thousands of OECD regions over 20...

This paper extends the firm heterogeneity model of Melitz (2003) by introducing a new concept of endogenous investments in process R&D. The novelty is that if a firm invests more in R&D its expected innovation return hazard rate stochastically dominates the return of less R&D investments. Due to...