A new paper was published by Tibor Kiss, Erik Braun and Tamás Sebestyén in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
The paper applies the framework of ecological network analysis to input–output data and captures resilient economic structures between self-sufficiency (redundancy) and extreme specialization (efficiency). The authors found that economically more open economies on the export side are more efficient and less structurally redundant, so the the specialization and integration into global supply chains go hand in hand. Moreover there is a significant relationship between structural resilience and changes in unemployment.