TY - BOOK AU - Blair,Peter Q. AU - Deming,David J. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2020/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - January 2020; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - In this paper we use detailed job vacancy data to estimate changes in skill demand in the years since the Great Recession. The share of job vacancies requiring a bachelor's degree increased by more than 60 percent between 2007 and 2019, with faster growth in professional occupations and high-wage cities. Since the labor market was becoming tighter over this period, cyclical "upskilling" is unlikely to explain our findings UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w26680 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26680 ER -