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Zoltán Elekes
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Senior Research fellow at ANETI Lab, ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary; Researcher at the Centre for Regional Science at Umeå University (CERUM), Sweden

Budapest team: https://anetilab.org/
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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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...
Job relatedness, local skill coherence and economic performance: a job postings approach
The local presence and composition of skills is commonly thought to have enormous implications for economic development. Yet, skills and the relations between them are notoriously difficult to pinp...
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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Apr 22
🎧 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...
How to know what business to attract
Det nya framtidslandet? · Episode
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ANETI Lab @anetilab.bsky.social · Mar 28
ANETI Lab is now on Bluesky! 📢 Follow us for research updates, group news and events! 🎯

Reposted by Ron Boschma, Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Sierdjan Koster , and 1 more

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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · Mar 5
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...
Does it take extra skills to work in a large city?
This paper explores the relationship between job complexity and agglomeration. For this, we assess whether vacancies in larger cities require more ski…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 5
🎉 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.
Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.

Reposted by Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Zoltán Elekes

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Mar 5
"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/...
Stylized map of Detroit (MI) showing the highway network, and the network of social connections between urban residents. The connections intersecting highways are sparser than elsewehere. Image credit Karo Berghuber (Insta: @kariot.lines)

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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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

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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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

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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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

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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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

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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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...
Job relatedness, local skill coherence and economic performance: a job postings approach
Job-level skill-relatedness matrix to accompany Henning et al. (2025). Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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

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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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

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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Feb 18
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

Reposted by Carlos Gershenson, Laurent Hébert‐Dufresne, Dieter F. Kogler , and 1 more

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · Dec 20
🚨 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
Professor of Data Science | IT:U
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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · Jan 15
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!
oxfordeconnet.bsky.social Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks @oxfordeconnet.bsky.social · Jan 15
Without further ado, here’s the amazing speaker lineup for OSSEN 2025!

Experts from across network science and economics will cover topics ranging from financial networks to urban mobility and more!

Don’t forget to apply by 3 March:
www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe...

Reposted by J. Doyne Farmer, Zoltán Elekes

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Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks @oxfordeconnet.bsky.social · Jan 15
Without further ado, here’s the amazing speaker lineup for OSSEN 2025!

Experts from across network science and economics will cover topics ranging from financial networks to urban mobility and more!

Don’t forget to apply by 3 March:
www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe...

Reposted by Zoltán Elekes

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Dec 3
🎉 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; 🧵👇

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · Nov 28
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...

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Sándor Juhász @sandorjuhasz.bsky.social · Nov 15
🚨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.
Amenity complexity and urban locations of socio-economic mixing - EPJ Data Science
Cities host diverse people and their mixing is the engine of prosperity. In turn, segregation and inequalities are common features of most cities and locations that enable the meeting of people with d...
epjdatascience.springeropen.com