Today s employers want highly skilled workers.

Yet high and protracted unemployment plagues many less skilled workers.

But countries like Belgium are also desperate for skilled workers.

According to empirical studies, the group of losers ranges from low skilled to skilled workers with a completed educational training.

Indeed, the economic justification that skilled immigrants tend to be net economic contributors while low skilled workers impose a fiscal burden and threaten low skilled natives is weak.

It even advocated liberalization of work permits for foreign workers skilled in internet technologies.

Or consider minimum wage legislation, which reduces employers willingness to hire low skilled workers.

On 17 June 2008, there were 7,500 skilled workers employed at the construction site.

The gains are much higher for skilled workers, so the mobility rate increases with education.

The supply of African professionals and skilled workers, meanwhile, is tight shortages also drive up wages.

To hire and retain skilled workers, many foreign invested enterprises routinely pay above the minimum wage.

Any minimum wage would automatically also apply to immigrant workers, mitigating unfair competition for low skilled jobs.

In reality, German unemployment is primarily a problem of a lack of jobs for low skilled workers.

Some social groups, such as skilled workers, engineers, and financial sector employees, have seen their wages rise strongly.

Most construction workers are rather low skilled and thus cannot be re deployed to modern high tech manufacturing.

Some social groups, such as skilled workers, engineers, and financial sector employees, have seen their wages rise strongly.

Indeed, the world faces a potential shortage of 30 40 million college educated workers in 2020, and a potential surplus of 95 million low skilled workers.

Middle class people in Poland are being hit by the increased cost of the services of skilled workers, such as plumbers, and also of the less skilled, such as decorators, and the highly skilled but low paid, such as doctors.

The solution to the problem, in Eric Maksin's opinion, is to improve the level of education of low skilled workers.

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He's a skilled linguist.

He's a skilled linguist.

In reality, German unemployment is primarily a problem of a lack of jobs for low skilled workers. Germany's welfare system effectively creates a minimum wage for the low skilled that is so far above the market price that it effectively prices such workers out of jobs.

For their members, international competition is a major threat as imports or immigrants may cut the wages of less skilled workers.

By contrast, construction and manufacturing are rightly seen to be more promising outlets for the mass deployment of semi skilled workers.

For their members, international competition is a major threat as imports or immigrants may cut the wages of less skilled workers.

Joseph is a skilled economist.

He is skilled in handicraft.

He was a skilled blacksmith.

He was a skilled blacksmith.

Tom is a skilled player.

Perhaps skilled workers will try to band together to get governments to pass laws and regulations making it more difficult for firms to make their jobs obsolete. But if the global trading system remains open to competition, skilled workers ability to forestall labor saving technology indefinitely should prove little more successful than such attempts by unskilled workers in the past.

Thus, as advanced economies create high skilled jobs, they inevitably create low skilled ones, too.

According to Young, those who have at least some talent will form a pioneer corps of plumbers and builders and other skilled workers.

These flows reflect the growing shortage of skilled workers and declining populations (particularly in Europe) that are beginning to bedevil the developed world.

Simply put, the greater the premium for highly skilled workers, the greater the incentive to find ways to economize on employing their talents.

Each year, the US government issues about 85,000 of them, mostly to highly skilled tech workers who settle in places like Silicon Valley.

The benefits would be extraordinary, for both Africa and the rich countries, which would be putting their businesses and skilled workers back to work.

Some of these trends also have to do with the nature of modern technological change, which seems to favor capital and skilled workers disproportionately.

Yemenis are known as skilled labourers.

Prehistoric men were skilled in knapping.

Tom is a very skilled player.

Many countries are also changing their immigration laws to make it easier to attract highly skilled workers, especially scientists and engineers, who are increasingly mobile.

Tom is very skilled in manual labor.

Tom is very skilled at manual labor.