Chapter 4: The Creative Class Jobs Revisited: Towards a Continuous Score of Creativity Based on Natural Language Processing

Richard Florida envisaged an ever-expanding creativity class as the creative content in occupations would increase over time and make new occupations qualify as creative class occupations. We suggest that this conjecture may best be verified by using a continuous creativity score rather than an essential static classification. Our main contribution is twofold: We construct a continuous score based on the fast-developing research on natural language processing techniques and we apply this score instigating Florida´s conjecture. Based on two million job postings for Norway from 2002 to 2020, we confirm the conjecture. In particular, it seems that the creative content in many low-end occupations has increased.