Lower-skilled occupations face greater upskilling pressure in U.S. job ads
Di Tong, Lingfei Wu, James A Evans · 2025
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Description
Di Tong, Lingfei Wu, and James Evans measure skill change across American jobs in this 2025 study. Most research asks which jobs automation might erase; this team instead asks how the contents of jobs shift as technology swaps tasks, forcing workers to reskill.
Across 167 million online job posts spanning 721 occupations, they measure how far apart old and new skills sit. The greatest change lands in lower skilled jobs, those with fewer skills, lower pay, and lower schooling demands. Small employers and small markets upgraded fastest, catching up to large ones. The pattern could widen strain on some workers, yet also narrow gaps in job quality.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Di Tong, Lingfei Wu, James A Evans |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |