The growing importance of social skills in the labor market.

Autor/in	Deming, David J.
Titel	The growing importance of social skills in the labor market. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die wachsende Bedeutung von sozialen Fähigkeiten am Arbeitsmarkt.
Quelle	In: The quarterly journal of economics, 132 (2017) 4, S. 1593-1640 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5533; 1531-4650
DOI	10.1093/qje/qjx022
Schlagwörter	USA; Qualifikationsanforderung; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsertrag; Einkommenseffekt; Qualifikationsanforderung; Qualifikationswandel; Teamkompetenz; Geschlechtsspezifik; Hoch Qualifizierter; USA
Abstract	"The labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction grew by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the U.S. labor force. Math-intensive but less social jobs - including many STEM occupations - shrank by 3.3 percentage points over the same period. Employment and wage growth were particularly strong for jobs requiring high levels of both math skill and social skills. 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 work together more efficiently. The model generates predictions about sorting and the relative returns to skill across occupations, which I investigate using data from the NLSY79 and the NLSY97. Using a comparable set of skill measures and covariates across survey waves, I find that the labor market return to social skills was much greater in the 2000s than in the mid-1980s and 1990s." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/2