management layers grow as companies grow - you need more and more people to manage process and communication.
tech - because it can't as easily be broken into modularized activities, and because the work is so specialized, you need more and more layers to manage small teams. in tech, the current idea is to have no more than 5-6 people report to you. hence: layers.
in other words: demand is there and/or can be manufactured in these kinds of positions. not so easy to do on a construction site or factory.
At 10:11 AM 10/31/2012, Wojtek S wrote:
>Doug: "Dean was making some sort of general statement, when he was
>actually characterizing two professions with a long-standing guild
>structure."
>
>[WS:] Granted. But there is another question implicit in Baker's
>piece that needs to be answered:
>
>Why did not the professional occupations other than lawyers and
>doctors that saw influx of foreign-born employees experience a
>relative decline in wages as non-professional occupations did?
>
>Historically, changes in socio-demographic composition of skilled
>occupations (e.g. feminization) typically led to a decline in status
>and wages in these occupations, but that did not seem to happen in
>banking, IT, management etc. Why?
>
>
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>Wojtek
>
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