Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Global labor flow network reveals the hierarchical organization and dynamics of geo-industrial clusters

  • Jaehyuk Park,
  • Ian B. Wood,
  • Elise Jing,
  • Azadeh Nematzadeh,
  • Souvik Ghosh,
  • Michael D. Conover,
  • Yong-Yeol Ahn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11380-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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There is a lack of systematic approaches to identify and analyze the hierarchical structure of geo-industrial clusters at the global scale. Here the authors use LinkedIn's employment history data to construct a global labor flow network from which they find that the resulting geo-industrial clusters exhibit a stronger association between the influx of educated-workers and financial performance compared to existing aggregation units.