The growing importance of social skills in the labor market.

Autor/in	Deming, David J.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	The growing importance of social skills in the labor market. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die wachsende Bedeutung von sozialen Fähigkeiten am Arbeitsmarkt.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2015), 65 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 21473
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w21473
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Einkommenseffekt; Qualifikationsanforderung; Qualifikationswandel; Teamkompetenz; Geschlechtsspezifik; Hoch Qualifizierter; USA
Abstract	The slow growth of high-paying jobs in the U.S. since 2000 and rapid advances in computer technology have sparked fears that human labor will eventually be rendered obsolete. Yet while computers perform cognitive tasks of rapidly increasing complexity, simple human interaction has proven difficult to automate. In this paper, I show that the labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Since 1980, jobs with high social skill requirements have experienced greater relative growth throughout the wage distribution. Moreover, employment and wage growth has been strongest in jobs that require high levels of both cognitive skill and social skill. To understand these patterns, I develop a model of team production where workers 'trade tasks' to exploit their comparative advantage. In the model, social skills reduce coordination costs, allowing workers to specialize and trade more efficiently. The model generates predictions about sorting and the relative returns to skill across occupations, which I test and confirm using data from the NLSY79. The female advantage in social skills may have played some role in the narrowing of gender gaps in labor market outcomes since 1980. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2016/1