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Stella Sophie Zilian

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Economist

email: zilian@wiiw.ac.at
telephone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-22

Stella Zilian is Economist at wiiw. Her main research interests lie in the quantitative analysis of different dimensions of social inequality in times of digitalisation with a particular focus on employment polarisation, digital skills and gender wage inequalities. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Graz and a PhD from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her work experience includes research positions at the University of Graz (Graz Schumpeter Centre and as Elisabeth-List-Fellow for Gender Research) and the Vienna University of Business and Economics (Institute of Heterodox Economics, Institute for Macroeconomics and the Research Institute Economics of Inequality). She was involved in different projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund ('How do smart machines transform the Austrian Economy'), the Austrian National Bank ('Digital competence mismatch in Austria', 'The Social and Economic Advantages of Migration in Europe') and the Digitalisierungsfonds Arbeit 4.0 of the Chamber of Labour ('Digitalisation and the Gender Pay Gap in Austria'), among others. In her research, she has worked with different microdata, in particular survey data (e.g., PIAAC), administrative data (e.g., from public employment services), and firm-level data (e.g., Orbis).

Austria, Vienna

External Publications

• 'Digitalisation of occupations—Developing an indicator based on digital skill requirements' (with Carolina Lennon and Laura S. Zilian), in: Rashid Mehmood (eds), PLoS ONE, 18(1): e0278281, 17 January 2023
• 'Digitalization, Industry Concentration, and Productivity in Germany' (with Benjamin Ferschli, Miriam Rehm and Matthias Schnetzer), Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Band 241, Heft 5-6, July 2021, pp. 623-665
• 'Labour market polarisation revisited: evidence from Austrian vacancy data' (with Georg Jäger and Laura S. Zilian), Journal for Labour Market Research volume, 55, 7, March 2021
• 'Technological Change in an Unstable Labor Market: A Dynamic System Approach' (with Timon Scheuer), Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Online, Vol. 54, Issue 4, November 2020, pp. 1033-1054
• 'Digital inequality in Austria: Empirical evidence from the survey of the OECD “Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies”' (with Laura S. Zilian), Technology in Society, Elsevier, Vol. 63, 101397, November 2020

• The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies - An Economic and Social Perspective, Heinz D. Kurz, Strohmaier Rita, Marlies Schütz and Stella Sophie Zilian (eds), Routledge, London, February 2022

• 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Distribution of Income' (with Laura S. Zilian), in: Heinz D. Kurz, Strohmaier Rita, Marlies Schütz and Stella Sophie Zilian (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies - An Economic and Social Perspective, Chapter 9, Routledge, London, February 2022
• 'Digitale Kompetenzen der Beschäftigten in Österreich: Wer ist gewappnet für das ‘race against the (smart) machine’?', in: Martin Griesbacher, Josef Hödl, Johanna Muckenhuber and Laura S. Zilian (eds), Disruption der Arbeit? Zu den Folgen der Digitalisierung im Dienstleistungssektor, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, Dezember 2021, pp 67-82
• 'Die vierte Industrielle Revolution – eine neue Hoffnung? Technologischer Fortschritt und Ungleichheit' (with Laura S. Zilian), in: Fred Luks (eds), Chancen und Grenzen der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation - Ökonomische und soziologische Perspektiven, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2019, pp 145-164
• 'Vom Datenkapitalismus zum Datensozialismus? Zur Bedeutung der Werke J. A. Schumpeters und T. B. Veblens in Zeiten des digitalen Wandels' (with Strohmaier Rita and Marlies Schütz), in: Hans Frambach, Norbert Koubek, Heinz D. Kurz and Reinhard Pfriem (eds), Schöpferische Zerstörung und der Wandel des Unternehmertums - Zur Aktualität von Joseph A. Schumpeter, Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg, January 2019, pp 173-196
• 'Verteilungseffekte des technologischen Wandels', in: Beirat für gesellschafts-, wirtschafts- und umweltpolitische Alternativen (BEIGEWUM) (eds), Umkämpfte Technologien - Arbeit im digitalen Wandel, VSA: Verlag Hamburg GmbH, 2018, pp 76-86

• 'Ungleichheit aus der Sicht eines Mathematikers - Rezension von: Per Molander, Die Anatomie der Ungleichheit: Woher sie kommt und wie wir sie beherrschen können', Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, AK Wien, 44. Jahrgang, Heft 2, 2018, pp. 250-256
• 'Riding a new wave of innovations - A long-term view at the current process of creative destruction' (with Heinz D. Kurz, Strohmaier Rita and Marlies Schütz), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, AK Wien, 44. Jahrgang, Heft 4, 2018, pp. 545-583
• 'Technologischer Fortschritt und Ungleichheit: eine empirische Analyse der Entwicklung in Österreich 2008-2014' (with Wilfried Altzinger, Karim Bekhtiar, Wolfgang Polt, Timon Scheuer and Maximilian Unger), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, AK Wien, 43. Jahrgang, Heft 3, 2017, pp. 405-437
• 'Technologischer Wandel und Ungleichheit: Zum Stand der empirischen Forschung' (with Wilfried Altzinger, Wolfgang Polt, Timon Scheuer and Maximilian Unger), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, AK Wien, 42. Jahrgang, Heft 4, 2016, pp. 591-615

• 'Digitale Ungleichheit in Österreich: Warum wir jetzt darüber reden müssen' (with Laura S. Zilian), A&W blog, Oktober 2020

• ' Labor-saving technological change? Sectoral evidence for Germany' (with Benjamin Ferschli, Miriam Rehm and Matthias Schnetzer), ifso working paper series, Institute for Socio-Economics (ifso), University of Duisburg-Essen, ifso working paper No. 14, Duisburg, 2021
• 'Marktmacht, Finanzialisierung, Ungleichheit - Wie die Digitalisierung die deutsche Wirtschaft verändert' (with Benjamin Ferschli, Miriam Rehm and Matthias Schnetzer), Report, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., Bonn, 2019
• 'Gendered Patenting: Geschlechterunterschiede in Patentanmeldungen in Österreich' (with Anett Hermann, Katharina Mader, Heike Mensi-Klarbach and Josef Scheuer), Wirtschafts Universität Wien (WU), Projektbericht, 2018
• 'Asian Development Outlook 2018: How Technology Affects Jobs', Asian Development Bank, Report, April 2018
• 'Technologischer Wandel & Ungleichheit' (with Wilfried Altzinger, Wolfgang Polt, Timon Scheuer and Maximilian Unger), Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Endbericht, Mai 2017

wiiw Publications

• 'The digital transition at work in the EU: Socio-demographic challenges' (with Sebastian Leitner), in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 10/2024, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 10, Vienna, October 2024, pp. 22-30
• 'Chart of the month: Austria in pole position to benefit from artificial intelligence', in: Vasily Astrov (eds), Monthly Report No. 12/2023, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 12, Vienna, December 2023, pp. 7-8