To boost this effect, Australia has cut the number of skilled worker visas that it offers. Malaysia more or less stopped issuing work permits in 2009.

为增加该效应，澳大利亚已削减了对技术工人发放的签证，马来西亚2009年几乎停发工作许可。

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Even Australia and Canada, which pioneered the "points system" to give preference to skilled workers, have cut back on work permits.

甚至连澳大利亚、加拿大这两个利用“计分制度”招揽技术工人的国家，也减少了国外工人的工作许可证。

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They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut strands to be worked into the blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen-the work of a skilled craftsman.

把金子锤成薄片，剪出线来，与蓝色，紫色，朱红色线，用巧匠的手工一同绣上。

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As a result, productivity at the Minnesota mines doubled with no new investment because work rules changed and the employment of skilled workers was cut in half.

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The plants had to be cut back and replanted, which took skilled labour.

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The limits include more levies on firms that employ low-skilled foreign workers, a cut in foreign worker quotas and stricter qualification guidelines.

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