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New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018
Book • 2024
This research addresses the role of newly emerging job categories ('new work') in counterbalancing the effects of automation on labor demand.
It examines the content of new work, its origins, and its impact on labor demand over eight decades.
The study finds that new work has shifted from middle-paid production and clerical jobs to high-paid professional and low-paid service occupations since 1980.
It examines the content of new work, its origins, and its impact on labor demand over eight decades.
The study finds that new work has shifted from middle-paid production and clerical jobs to high-paid professional and low-paid service occupations since 1980.
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Stephen J. Dubner when discussing a paper on the origins and content of new work from 1940 to 2018.


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