David Deming's study on the growing importance of social skills in the labor market was published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 132, issue 4, in November 2017, on pages 1593–1640.
Sources
- 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://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/qjecon/v132y2017i4p1593-1640..html (ideas.repec.org)
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