Actually Middle Skills Jobs Are Not Disappearing

In their NYT piece on the possibilities for people switching jobs in mid-career, Clair Cain Miller and Quoctrung Bui link to a piece by M.I.T. economist David Autor to support the assertion that extensive research shows middle skills jobs are disappearing. Actually, more careful research showed the opposite. In the last decade, both middle and high skills jobs (using Autor's definition) were declining as a share of total employment. Only the least skilled jobs had an increasing share.

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