In addition, smaller Numbers of migrant workers from Latin America and the Caribbean have lost construction jobs than native non-Hispanic workers during the US slowdown in 2007-08.

另外，在美国2007 - 08年的萧条中失去了建筑业工作岗位的拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的移民工人，少于当地的非西班牙裔移民工人。

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Studies show that migrant workers even in hard-hit sectors like construction continue to send money home even if their own earnings are reduced.

研究表明，即使是在像建筑业那样受到严重影响的部门工作的移民工人，仍然在继续向家中汇款，即便他们自己的收入减少了。

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Relying as it does on low-wage, low-skilled migrant workers from South Asia, Singapore’s construction industry is not yet ready for such a high-tech transformation.

新加坡的工业依靠从南亚进口的低薪低技术的工人，目前还没有做好向高科技转变的准备。

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About 20 million migrant workers at factories and construction sites have already lost their jobs, according to government s estimates.

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This is partly because many of these job losses have been in industries such as toymaking, textiles and construction, which use migrant and unskilled workers.

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Perhaps the most rapid change has taken place in North Carolina, where a technology and construction boom has sucked in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, swelling the Hispanic population by more than 1, 000% since 1990.

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