Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction increased by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the U.S. labor force.
Sources
- The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (hks.harvard.edu)
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w21473 (nber.org)
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