The Changing Global Division of Labor in Software: Emergence and Diffusion of New Programming Skills across IT Hubs (opens in new tab)

With the rise of new industries, often new jobs emerge. Evolutionary Economic Geography and in particular Industry Life Cycle perspectives predict that these activities first emerge in a limited number of cities to then diffuse to other locations as job descriptions become more standardized. Here, we focus on a particularly important new industry: software development, an activity that is economically important, quickly changing, and has a prono...