Employment and wage growth from 1980 to 2012 were especially strong in jobs requiring high levels of both math skill and social skills.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by NBER working paper and peer-reviewed QJE publication by David Deming, with corroborating secondary sources providing specific supporting statistics. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (seed:relationships_and_lifestyle)
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w21473 (corroboration)
- https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/132/4/1593/3861633 (corroboration)
- https://econofact.org/automation-and-the-growing-importance-of-social-skills-in-the-labor-market (corroboration)
- https://journalistsresource.org/economics/social-skills-valuable-jobs-workers/ (corroboration)