In contrast, 32% indicated that they had done some restructuring of the IT department, and nearly half of those companies had built new roles related to cloud computing, such as workers skilled in building private clouds or departmental liaisons who understand the needs of various lines of business.
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Mr. ALEX TABARROK (Professor, Economics, George Mason University): It's technology, computers and robots, which have raised the wages of high skilled workers and pushed down the wages of low skilled workers.
Low-skilled workers in developed economies are losing out relative to skilled workers.
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It aims to strengthen border security while raising the cap on visas for high skilled workers and establishing a new visa program for low skilled workers on America's farms and elsewhere.
More likely pieces like this just aid in maintaining the protectionism that high-skilled workers in professional services enjoy at the cost of low-skilled workers.
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Additionally , unlike native low-skilled workers, low-skilled immigrants are likely to arrive with skills and abilities that are complimentary rather than competitive with the existing labor force, and they are much more mobile too.
Despite the obvious need for such workers, Congress has not developed a good legal way for farm workers and other low-skilled workers to enter America legally.
When employers are calculating the prevailing wage for these workers, they suddenly become low skilled workers.
Over the past decade an innovative approach to workforce development, known as sectoral employment, has created industry-specific training programs that prepare and connect unemployed and under-skilled workers to employers desperate to fill skilled vacancies.
First, the premium for skilled workers has been falling: a surge in secondary education has increased the supply of literate, reasonably well-schooled workers, and years of steady growth have raised relative demand for the less skilled in the formal workforce, whether as construction workers or cleaners.
Business leaders have told us that as a country, we should prioritise skilled Tier 2, workers with a job offer rather than highly-skilled Tier 1 workers without a job offer.
Given South Africa's high unemployment, unskilled workers are easy to replace, but skilled and semi-skilled workers are not.
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Developed economies have lots of skilled workers, whereas emerging economies have lots of low-skilled ones, so according to the theory advanced countries will specialise in capital-intensive products requiring skilled labour and emerging economies in low-tech products.
In rich countries, competition from millions of new, low-skilled workers has acted as a drag on wages for less-skilled ones in advanced economies.
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Some multinationals are taking a different tack, hiring as many as three workers for each skilled position, to ensure that replacements are on hand when trained workers die.
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The measure would put millions who are in the U.S. illegally on a 13-year path to citizenship, while toughening border security requirements, mandating that all employers check the legal status of workers, and allowing tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country with new visa programs.
He also hopes that some of the workers who were made redundant could be taken back on to be part of the skilled workers assembly line.
However, he points out that this time, manufacturing companies and workers are seeking short-term working and pay freeze agreements in order to retain skilled workers, in contrast to the mass layoffs in the 1980s.
Adding 2 billion low skill and low wage workers to the global workforce is indeed going to put downward pressure on wages for low skilled workers in the rich countries.
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China still has perhaps 200m underemployed rural workers who could move to factories over the next two decades, so wages for low-skilled workers are rising more slowly than productivity, reducing China's unit labour costs.
The union claims the move would lead to skilled workers, including electricians, pipe-fitters and plumbers, being forced to work on semi-skilled grades and losing up to a third of their pay.
Central has one of the highest proportions of professional workers in the country, and a relatively small number of skilled manual workers.
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We can do this by opening the borders and letting in more high-skilled workers.
So, what we should see is stagnating or falling real wages for our lowest skilled workers.
If baby-boomers want to work longer and companies want more skilled workers, what's the problem?
It plans to recruit 43 highly-skilled workers in addition to the 34 already at the site.
Low-skilled workers are just as afraid of those from Mexico, Guatemala or El Salvador.
And Facebook has already been shown to be highly effective in recruiting lower-skilled workers.
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Peugeot is not alone in heading east in search of skilled workers at lower wages.
Relevant knowledge of the highly skilled workers allows emerging industries to have a strong base.
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