He wants to cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder and hurt low-skilled workers.
Thus, the job-destroying effects of minimum wages fall particularly hard on low-skilled adults in poor families.
Low-skilled workers are just as afraid of those from Mexico, Guatemala or El Salvador.
There's also a fair bit evidence that immigrants, particularly undocumented low-skilled immigrants, don't replace American jobs.
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The 18% is a working-class phenomenon, due to de-industrialization and the elimination of low-skilled jobs.
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In a word: jobs, More specifically, the kinds of low-skilled jobs we desperately need.
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The effect of highly-skilled immigrants is apt to be positive, especially for low-skilled Americans.
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Meanwhile, the low-skilled factory jobs in Shenzhen are being replaced by higher skilled employment.
Since then 40 million people have migrated to the United States, most of them very low-skilled.
Crucially, it provides many jobs for the low-skilled, who can be particularly difficult to place elsewhere.
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And meanwhile, far from shrinking, the demand for low-skilled labor is growing over time.
More recently, and more sensibly, Sweden has cut taxes on labour, especially for the low-skilled.
Many people view low-skilled immigrants as an economic burden because they produce few income taxes.
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Changing technology and competition from emerging economies has reduced demand for low-skilled workers in rich countries.
Ever more low-skilled white American men have left the labour force, many moving onto disability rolls.
It's important to keep in mind that low-skilled workers also make up the bulk of illegal immigrants.
The government's new controls are designed mainly to prevent low-skilled Romanians and Bulgarians from working in Britain.
These are not trivial amounts for workers in low-wage industries like food service, retail, and low-skilled labor.
Critics said that the point system favored educated, highly skilled immigrants at the expense of low-skilled laborers.
And, according to immigration restrictionists, they already get most low-skilled jobs anyway because they'll work for lower pay.
But it also needs job-market reforms, from streamlining and upgrading training to increasing employers' incentives to hire the low-skilled.
There are two general explanations people give for why the oppose low-skilled immigration.
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An employed, low-skilled worker who keeps his job earns a slightly higher wage.
They are normally restricted to low-skilled jobs, such as catering, cleaning and security.
He advocates more generous subsidies for the wages of low-skilled workers to ensure these workers are building job skills.
There is a small visa program for seasonal, short-term, low-skilled workers but it only offers 66, 000 visas a year.
In addition, most jobs the U. S. lost to China are low-skilled jobs.
At the same time, employers across the world may find themselves with 90m more low-skilled workers than they need.
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It won't be low-skilled workers leaving, as in the 1960s, says Mr Robolis: it will be an educated elite.
In both countries it is the low-skilled and poorly educated the supposed losers from globalisation who are most openly in revolt.
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