semi-skilled

The difference between domestic and foreign labor costs is simply too large for a 30% premium to tip the balance in America's favor in an industry based on semi-skilled labor.

Ian Fletcher: Why a Flat Tariff on All U.S. Imports Would Work Ian Fletcher 2011

Since we seem to be locked into a de facto policy of allowing masses of un/semi-skilled labor in, we might as well encourage attract more people to employ them.

Matthew Yglesias » EB-5 Visas 2010

"The manual labourers and semi-skilled workers from Ireland are the most vulnerable to an economic downturn at home, especially in the building trade; they are also the ones least likely to get a job if they emigrate to Britain for work, particularly once the Conservative/Lib Dem cuts start to really bite."

Over 100,000 Irish workers expected to leave country before 2012 Henry McDonald in Dublin 2010

The difference between domestic and foreign labor costs is simply too large for a 30% premium to tip the balance in America's favor in an industry based on semi-skilled labor.

Ian Fletcher: Why a Flat Tariff on All U.S. Imports Would Work Ian Fletcher 2011

The congress has even warned that, in the north and the south, there is a danger that the unskilled and semi-skilled unemployed, the sector least able to migrate, could become a new pool of disaffection that might be exploited by dissident Republican terrorists on either side of the Irish border.

Over 100,000 Irish workers expected to leave country before 2012 Henry McDonald in Dublin 2010

Yes, there are unemployed people, but, most of these are semi-skilled laborers from the construction industry.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Mark Perry on US Manufacturing 2009

The fact that few Greeks or Portuguese have enough German to take on professional or even semi-skilled jobs in Germany removes the sort of safety valve that properly integrated federations rely on.

Delivering a Franco-German Bouquet of Irony Alen Mattich 2011

Now, there are loss of unskilled & semi-skilled jobs because this kind of work went to, primary China.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Most Depressing Thing I Read Today 2009

Seems to me all these jobs are a bunch of semi-skilled labor weatherizing buildings and installing PV and passive solar systems, at best.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Time to Admit that CO2 Abatement is Going to be Freaking Expensive 2010

Retraining in specialized skills is as vulnerable outsourcing as was semi-skilled labor in the recent past.

Stephen Herrington: The State of the Union Is: Appalling Stephen Herrington 2011