a thread of all the graphs in my APSA paper, with minimal context:

the rise of the business services sector.

fragmentation of production!

high skill and low skill workers are increasingly segregated...

in the knowledge economy, high-skilled work isn't just about cognitive skills. it's about cognitive *and* social skills. (i call this: "interpersonal knowledge work")

our existing typologies (e.g. Oesch's class framework) don't capture this very well...

people doing this type of high-skilled work tend to be quite left-wing, especially when they work in sectors full of other highly-educated people!

though, interestingly, this interaction effect of (skill) x (social context) is driven by the economic dimension, not the cultural one...

here are the same plots using individual (as opposed to party-level) outcomes:

are these just selection effects? highly-educated liberals just wanna work at google, play ping pong, and redistribute income?

maybe.

but the these effects have strengthened over time suggesting there may be a genuine causal effect too...

join us tomorrow at 4pm EDT if you would like to see these graphs again, with more context.

https://apsa.conferencecontent.net/session/1657813