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Harm-Jan Rouwendal

@hjrouwendal.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher Economic Geography University of Groningen | Research on the geography of #jobs #skills #vacancies #automation #innovation

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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Does it still matter where firms are when it comes to AI adoption? In our new paper we track the demand for AI skills across Dutch firms as a proxy for AI adoption by firms. @sierdjan.bsky.social @TeresaFarinha www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The geography of AI adoption: AI diffusion in Dutch municipalities 2012–2020
Artificial intelligence is used in many workplaces today, yet the initial adoption process of this new general-purpose technology remains underexplored. This paper examines whether a head start in ...
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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Do you want to understand how talent, skills, and technology shape regional labour markets? We’re hiring for two PhD positions! 🌍🎓 More details: werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/phd... @sierdjan.bsky.social @frw-rug.bsky.social
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PhD positions 'Talent in the Region' - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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
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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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.
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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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...
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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…
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Zoltán Elekes @zoltanelekes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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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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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thanks for this recognition! I am looking forward to presenting in Cork this June!
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Regional Studies Journal @regionalstudies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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....
Figure 5. Geographical distribution of bioclusters in Europe.

Note: A darker colour represents regions identified more often as biocluster in the six time-windows between 1986 and 2015.
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Harm-Jan Rouwendal @hjrouwendal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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/...
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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...
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