Using comparable skill measures and covariates from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 surveys, David Deming found that the labor-market return to social skills was much greater in the 2000s than in the mid-1980s and 1990s.
Sources
- The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (hks.harvard.edu)
- https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w21473/w21473.pdf (nber.org)
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60832ecef615231cedd30911/t/6088224222500b1083b5ac1e/1619534406228/Deming_SocialSkills_QJE.pdf (static1.squarespace.com)
- https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/qjecon/v132y2017i4p1593-1640..html (ideas.repec.org)
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