From 1980 to 2012, math-intensive but less-social jobs, including many STEM occupations, declined by 3.3 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://journalistsresource.org/economics/social-skills-valuable-jobs-workers/ (journalistsresource.org)
- 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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