Harm-Jan Rouwendal
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Harm-Jan Rouwendal
@hjrouwendal.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher Economic Geography University of Groningen | Research on the geography of #jobs #skills #vacancies #automation #innovation
Mijn onderzoek in bijna alle lokale kranten!

Samen met @sierdjan.bsky.social deed ik onderzoek naar ruimtelijke verschillen in de vraag naar skills. Dat leverde niet alleen een wetenschappelijk artikel op, maar ook media-aandacht. Ruimtelijk onderzoek raakt ook weer ruimtelijk verspreid! 1/3
May 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Insightful conference today in Brussels on the use of job vacancy and skills data, hosted by @cedefop.europa.eu. Vacancy data holds great potential for labor market insights, but comparing different datasets and taxonomies is crucial for ensuring accuracy and reliability.
April 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
March 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reposted by Harm-Jan Rouwendal
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...
doi.org
February 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Thanks for this recognition! I am looking forward to presenting in Cork this June!
The best paper award went to @hjrouwendal.bsky.social from @unigroningen.bsky.social for his research on new #skill adoption in #cities

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February 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Reposted by Harm-Jan Rouwendal
New in #OpenAccess: 'Using archetypal analysis to derive a typology of knowledge networks in European bioclusters' by @mabbasiharofteh.bsky.social & @franshermans.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Why is it easier to find a job that matches your skills in a city than elsewhere?
In this study we show that there are disproportionally more vacancies available per worker, which makes it easier to move from one job to another.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Are urban labour markets more dynamic? Vacancies and urban scaling - Harm-Jan Rouwendal, Jan Rouwendal, 2024
This paper shows that there is superlinear scaling of vacancies with employment size. That is, there are disproportionally more vacancies relative to employment...
journals.sagepub.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 AM