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Context: Scholars in the software engineering (SE) research community have investigated career advancement in the software industry. Research topics have included how individual and external factors can impact career mobility of software…

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Mobility cross spatial units represents the embodiment of how people manage activities between locations along temporal sequences. Spatiotemporal pattern nevertheless interacts with the socioeconomic characteristics of respected origin…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-03 Rafiazka Millanida Hilman

The expression "wage transition" refers to the fact that over the past two or three decades in all developed economies wage increases have levelled off. There has been a widening divergence and decoupling between wages on the one hand and…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-02-01 Belal Baaquie , Bertrand M. Roehner , Qinghai Wang

Researches on the human mobility have made great progress in many aspects, but the long-term and long-distance migration behavior is lack of in-depth and extensive research because of the difficult in accessing to household data. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-27 Qi Nie , Jian-Jun Wu , Xiao-Yong Yan , Jin-Hu Liu , Jun Wang

The share of construction trade jobs held by women and people with disabilities has remained stubbornly low in the face of chronic shortages of skilled labor. This study explores the potential of wearable assistive technologies to reduce…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-20 Yana Rodgers , Xiangmin Liu , Jingang Yi , Liang Zhang

A pervasive trend in economic development is the shift from agricultural to manufacturing and finally to service economies. Because the type of employment associated with each sector influences natural resource use this global trend may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-05 Diego Rybski , David P. Helmers , Prajal Pradhan , Shade T. Shutters , Volker Radeloff , Van Butsic

How many workers displaced by automation can realistically transition to safer jobs? We answer this using a validated knowledge graph of 9,978 Egyptian job postings, 19,766 skill activities, and 84,346 job-skill relationships (0.74% error…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ahmed Dawoud , Sondos Samir , Youssef Nasr , Ahmed Habashy , Aya Saleh , Mahmoud Mohamed , Osama El-Shamy

The rapid expansion of high-speed internet has led to the emergence of new digital jobs, such as digital influencers, fitness models, and adult models who share content on subscription-based social media platforms. Across two experiments…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Paul H. P. Hanel , Gabriel Lins de Holanda Coelho , Jennifer Haase

Human mobility plays a critical role in urban planning and policy-making. However, at certain spatial and temporal resolutions, it is very challenging to track, for example, job and housing mobility. In this study, we explore the usage of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yawen Zhang , Seth Spielman , Qi Liu , Si Shen , Jason Shuo Zhang , Qin Lv

While human mobility plays a crucial role in determining air pollution exposures and health risks, research to-date has assessed risks based solely on residential location. Here we leveraged a database of ~ 130 million workers in the US and…

COVID-19 has deeply affected daily life and travel behaviors. Understanding these changes is crucial, prompting an investigation into socio-demographic and socio-economic factors. This study used large-scale mobile device location data in…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-26 Saeed Saleh Namadi , Behnam Tahmasbi , Asal Mehditabrizi , Aref Darzi , Deb Niemeier

This paper studies the role of social networks in spatial mobility across India. Using aggregated and de-identified data from the world's largest online social network, we (i) document new descriptive findings on the structure of social…

General Economics · Economics 2022-03-17 Harshil Sahai , Michael Bailey

Driven by access to large volumes of movement data, the study of human mobility has grown rapidly over the past decades. The field has shown that human mobility is scale-free, proposed models to generate scale-free moving distance…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-17 Louis Boucherie , Benjamin F. Maier , Sune Lehmann

The rapid growth of the digital platform economy is transforming labor markets, offering new employment opportunities with promises of flexibility and accessibility. However, these benefits often come at the expense of increased economic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Clara Punzi

Opportunities, such as access to education or family background, shape income inequality by influencing the chances of economic success. Unequal opportunities create uncertainty about whether success is merit- or luck-based. We examine how…

General Economics · Economics 2025-03-03 Marcel Preuss , Germán Reyes , Jason Somerville , Joy Wu

Transportation systems can be conceptualized as an instrument of spreading people and resources over the territory, playing an important role in developing sustainable cities. The current rationale of transport provision is based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-05 J. Siqueira-Gay , M. A. Giannotti , M. Sester

The promise of equal opportunity is a cornerstone of modern societies, yet upward economic mobility remains out of reach for many. Using a decade of population-scale social network data from the Netherlands, covering over a billion family,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-08 Yuliia Kazmina , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Emilia van der Kooij , Eszter Bokányi , Frank W. Takes

Technological change can have profound impacts on the labor market. Decades of research have made it clear that technological change produces winners and losers. Machines can replace some types of work that humans do, while new technologies…

General Economics · Economics 2025-04-11 Janneke Pieters , Ana Kujundzic , Rulof Burger , Joel Gondwe

Ride-sharing services are revolutionizing urban mobility while simultaneously raising significant concerns regarding fairness and driver equity. This study employs Chicago Trip Network Provider dataset to investigate disparities in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Hy Dang , Yuwen Lu , Jason Spicer , Tamara Kay , Di Yang , Yang Yang , Jay Brockman , Meng Jiang , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Although it has been suggested that the shift from on-site work to telework will change the city structure, the mechanism of this change is not clear. This study clarifies how the location of firms changes when the cost of teleworking…

General Economics · Economics 2022-12-05 Kazufumi Tsuboi