The city's Labour pool tends to be highly-skilled, and the impact of the recession was mostly felt by the lower-skilled.

这个城市的劳动力往往是高技能人才，而经济衰退影响到的大多只是更低技能的人。

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The poor unemployed may be a new labour pool, but companies may not find them all that useful.

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Jim Hosking, a daffodil farmer, has found that as unemployment has dropped in Cornwall, the local labour pool has dried up.

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That is because they are seeing their incomes rise in real terms and there is strong demand for workers in a shrinking labour pool.

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