David Deming's economic model proposes that workers 'trade tasks' to exploit comparative advantages, with social skills reducing coordination costs and enabling more efficient specialization and teamwork.
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- The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (hks.harvard.edu)
- https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/132/4/1593/3861633 (academic.oup.com)
- https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w21473/w21473.pdf (nber.org)
- https://www.nber.org/digest/nov15/growing-importance-social-skills-labor-market (nber.org)
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