Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders
by Jason L. Riley · 14 May 2008 · 196pp · 53,627 words
, offsetting the negative effects that a greater labor supply might have,” he writes. “They fill vital niches at the ends of the skill spectrum, doing low-skilled jobs that native Americans rebuff (at prevailing wages) as well as sophisticated high-skill jobs.” Among high-skilled immigrant workers, these dots are perhaps easier to
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the benefit of those Americans who compete most directly with low-skilled foreign workers for entry-level jobs. Black Americans, who are disproportionately concentrated in low-skilled jobs, are considered especially vulnerable. The black unemployment rate is typically double that of whites and significantly higher among black males. Can this situation be laid
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the country illegally each year—a direct consequence of the fact that our current policy is to make available just five thousand visas annually for low-skilled workers. If we want to reduce the number of illegal entries, the most sensible course is to provide more legal ways for people to come. This
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Krikorian, Mark Kristof, Nicholas Labor, U.S. Department of labor market argument automation delay and black economic advancement and California experience France and job stealing myth low-skilled American laborers and low-skilled immigrant laborers and Reagan on skilled professionals and labor participation rates Labor Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Lamm, Richard “Latino Fear and
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier
by Joe Studwell · 6 Dec 2025 · 393pp · 148,223 words
.11 The response of the Labour Party was to seek to develop manufacturing, the one type of economic activity that could create large numbers of low-skill jobs. The quest began in the 1960s with import substitution industrialisation (ISI) – the targeted replacement of imports by local manufacturing. The government granted import tariff protection
Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
by Erik Brynjolfsson · 23 Jan 2012 · 72pp · 21,361 words
unemployment is real. To understand this threat, we'll define three overlapping sets of winners and losers that technical change creates: (1) high-skilled vs. low-skilled workers, (2) superstars vs. everyone else, and (3) capital vs. labor. Each set has well-documented facts and compelling links to digital technology. What’s more
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the data. For all three sets of winners and losers, the news is troubling. Let’s look at each in turn. 1. High-Skilled vs. Low-Skilled Workers We’ll start with skill-biased technical change, which is perhaps the most carefully studied of the three phenomena. This is technical change that increases
Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston · 18 Apr 2016 · 338pp · 92,465 words
in occupations that are stagnating—is not unique to middle-skill workers. Some states—most notably southern and traditional Rust Belt states—have substantially more low-skill workers than low-skill jobs, while others—particularly those in the Northeast—have more high-skill workers than high-skill jobs. And then there are those states, like California
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2010 · 386pp · 122,595 words
1932. A rising tide does indeed lift all boats; economic growth is a very good thing for poor people. Period. But even at high tide, low-skilled workers are clinging to driftwood while their better-skilled peers are having cocktails on their yachts. A robust economy does not transform valet parking attendants into
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favors workers who either have computer skills or are smart enough to learn them on the job. Technology makes smart workers more productive while making low-skilled workers redundant. ATMs replaced bank tellers; self-serve pumps replaced gas station attendants; automated assembly lines replaced workers doing mindless, repetitive tasks. Indeed, the assembly line
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the demand for workers with no specialized skills other than a willingness to do an honest day’s work. Meanwhile, international trade puts low-skilled workers in greater competition with other low-skilled workers around the globe. In the long run, international trade is a powerful force for good; in the short run, it has victims
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are far fewer domestic servants in the United States than in India, even though the United States is a richer country. India is awash with low-skilled workers who have few other employment options; America is not, making domestic labor relatively expensive (as anyone with a nanny can attest). Who can afford a
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moved to Vietnam. (Remember, I was the speechwriter for the governor of Maine; I have tried to explain that.) Trade, like technology, can destroy jobs, particularly low-skilled jobs. If a worker in Maine earns $14 an hour for something that can be done in Vietnam for $1 an hour, then he had
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
by Byron Reese · 23 Apr 2018 · 294pp · 96,661 words
untold numbers of order-taking jobs. If technology is destroying vast numbers of low-skilled jobs but is creating only a few new high-skill jobs, we will be left with a shortage of low-skill jobs and a large number of permanently unemployed low-skilled workers. Hence, we are in a permanent Great Depression. There are jobs that
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requirements of many, many existing jobs. Once you accept the idea that automation will do more and more low-skill jobs, you cannot escape the fact that this will result in too many low-skilled workers and too few low-skill jobs. What do we say to this line of narrative? Let’s explore the five assumptions behind it
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Google Translate. That’s why by 2024, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 29 percent employment growth for interpreters and translators. ASSUMPTION 4: Low-skilled workers will be the first to go. ASSUMPTION 5: There won’t be enough jobs for these workers in the future. The assumptions that
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low-skilled workers will be the first to go and that there won’t be enough jobs for them undoubtedly have some truth to them, but they require
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machines. In this view, the hierarchy of economic value in the future goes from skilled humans on top, then robots, then low-skilled workers. In this scenario, there are a great many low-skill jobs that robots will soon be able to do. For each job replaced, the number of unemployed unskilled workers will increase and
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn · 14 Jan 2020 · 307pp · 96,543 words
reality TV refrain: “You’re fired!” * * * — THE CAUSES OF ECONOMIC DISTRESS included automation and globalization, which affected workers in many countries, and real wages for low-skilled workers fell not only in the United States but also in Britain and Germany. So as part of our journey to understand what went so badly
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it harder for me to get a job,” he told us. It’s true that in places like Yamhill, immigrants may have taken some jobs from low-skilled workers. Several employers made the point to us that they would be crazy to hire a white high-school dropout who was often high on meth
Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook · 28 Mar 2016 · 345pp · 92,849 words
allows foreigners to share in the American Dream, which is something we should value for its own sake, but may also fuel economic growth.16 Low-skilled workers tend to bid down wages for low-skilled work, which sounds bad until you remember that this lowers the cost of the products we all
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,000 a year, and an experienced plumber can earn upward of $70,000.38 Even the low-skilled service-sector jobs at places such as McDonald’s and Walmart have been unfairly maligned as “dead-end jobs.” A low-skilled, low-paying job is not a limit on opportunity—it’s a stepping-stone to greater
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started his rise working behind a McDonald’s counter.)16 The more common pattern, of course, is for unskilled workers to start at these low-skill, low-paying jobs, and use the skills and experience they acquire to find better jobs in other fields. But what if a person can’t get that first
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benefits. In other cases, higher labor costs may lead some companies not to expand, while other companies may never get started. Either way, fewer jobs for low-skilled workers.22 The point isn’t to criticize the Card and Krueger study in particular. It’s that it’s wrong to take a single empirical
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. In 1989, those percentages had already fallen to 48.9 and 16.2 percent, respectively.)58 Was this frightening decline due to a lack of low-skilled jobs? Surely that’s part of the story, and here the job-killing minimum wage deserves its share of the blame. (According to journalist Jason Riley
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costs (subsidized housing costs increase when incomes rise) and clothing costs (depending on the job). . . . Single mothers on welfare know that leaving welfare for a low-skilled job will make them worse off than they were on welfare.65 In a more recent study from the Cato Institute, Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market
by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane · 11 Apr 2004 · 187pp · 55,801 words
engineering occupations classified in BLS statistics). 44 CHAPTER 3 The shift that Jeremy Rifkin feared, a “deskilled” occupational structure, requires that the total number of low-skilled jobs ( janitors plus security guards plus food preparation and service workers, etc.) increases more than the total number of higher-skilled jobs (lawyers plus doctors plus
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During the industrial revolution, the short-run impact of growth was almost the opposite of what we see today. Technology favored not highskilled workers but low-skilled workers as machines combined with unskilled labor to make products ranging from textiles to bicycles to guns. It was higher-skilled workers—weavers, clock makers, and
Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
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the pages of the New York Times to the screeching talking heads on Fox News, it’s common to refer to people in many jobs as “unskilled” or “low-skilled” workers. This language is used by conservatives and progressives alike, and I used it myself until I heard a speech given by Barbara Ehrenreich
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