This paper investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) goes beyond traditional technological roles to drive transformation across industries, organisations, and society. By analysing 2188 academic papers from the arXiv platform (from 2018 until 2025), the study highlights the unexpectedly...

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...

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...

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...

Mismatches between teacher specialization and subjects they teach continues to be an ongoing challenge in the Philippine education system. It affects both pedagogical effectiveness and student learning outcomes. This study sought to investigate the degree of subject-taught mismatch, its...

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...

This paper links globalization, worker efficiency, and wage inequality within plants to internal labor market organization. Using German plant–worker data and information on the task content of occupations, we document that larger plants (i) use more occupations, (ii) assign fewer tasks per...

Production increasingly requires specialized expertise. To study the macroeconomic implications, I develop a tractable theory in which firms assemble teams of workers with heterogeneous task-specific skills. Deriving the firm’s production function from optimal task assignment shows that output...

Das Statistische Bundesamt hat seit dem Jahr 2023 im Mikrozensus das Konzept der Einwanderungsgeschichte eingeführt und setzt es nun auch auf der Ebene von Haushalten und Lebensformen um. Der Beitrag stellt zunächst Strukturmerkmale von Haushalten und Lebensformen mit und ohne...

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...

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...

Das Statistische Bundesamt hat seit dem Jahr 2023 im Mikrozensus das Konzept der Einwanderungsgeschichte eingeführt und setzt es nun auch auf der Ebene von Haushalten und Lebensformen um. Der Beitrag stellt zunächst Strukturmerkmale von Haushalten und Lebensformen mit und ohne...

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...

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...

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...

An einem fehlerhaften Beispiel wird aufgezeigt, dass ein Land nicht in jedem Produkt einem anderen Land komparativ überlegen sein kann. Absolute Kostenvorteile sind in allen Produkten möglich, doch auch das unproduktivere Land besitzt in der Regel mindestens einen komparativen Kostenvorteil...

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...

We exploit gaps between observed and recently forecasted GDP growth in export destinations to estimate the effects of unexpected export shocks on worker compensation. Using employer-employee panel data, we find that these export shocks are partly transmitted to workers in the form of higher...

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...