THE INCREASING COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL SKILLS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Weinberger, Catherine J.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00449
• 发表日期: 2014-12
• 页码: 849-861
• 关键词: labor-market outcomes; technological-change; wage inequality; return; college; PARTICIPATION; polarization; earnings; TRENDS; rise

摘要

Data linking 1972 and 1992 adolescent skill endowments to adult outcomes reveal increasing complementarity between cognitive and social skills. In fact, previously noted growth in demand for cognitive skills affected only individuals with strong endowments of both social and cognitive skills. These findings are corroborated using Census and CPS data matched with Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) job task measures; employment in and earnings premia to occupations requiring high levels of both cognitive and social skill grew substantially compared with occupations that require only one or neither type of skill, and this emerging feature of the labor market has persisted into the new millennium.