Catherine (Kathryn) Dill
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard May 2022
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And in the wake of the financial crisis, many of those jobs were taken by adults.
And in a lot of cases, adults held multiple of those types of jobs.
And so for a variety of factors, including that one, teens have been sort of squeezed out of the labor market over the last several decades.
And so, as we know, the adults who held those jobs, many of them left those industries behind, possibly for good.
during the pandemic.
And so teens have really emerged as a really crucial pipeline for those employers.
Well, we don't know necessarily that teens are wielding that leverage, but it's more like things have improved for workers in these industries that are more likely to attract teens.
So, for example, in a lot of those retail jobs, the hourly wage has ticked up considerably.
since last year, and it's often still not enough to attract adult workers.
And so teens are emerging as a force to take these jobs where conditions have improved quite a bit.
WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Blue-Collar Workers Are Making the Leap into Tech Jobs · 11 Apr 2022
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Many of these workers who end up in roles like cybersecurity and software sales and things like that can do that work from home.
And also many of them are used to working jobs that came with sort of uncommon hours or unreliable hours.
These are what we're calling new-collar jobs.
These are middle-skill jobs that often require some tech skills, but not necessarily the full scope of what you might get out of like a computer science degree.
So some programming skills, workers who work on cybersecurity or developing web applications or
workers who've moved from a sales rep job to an account manager job.
That's the type of job we're looking at here.
We looked at new research collected over the last two years that found that more than a tenth of Americans who were in these low-paying roles in industries like warehousing, manufacturing, hospitality, and other lower-wage and hourly positions are the ones that were really making the switch.
It's a significant number.
It's more than a tenth of Americans in these low-paying and hourly wage roles that the data looked at.
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