Low-Skilled Worker

A Low-Skilled Worker is a worker who is required to only perform low-skill job.

Context:
- They can range from being an Employed Low-Skill Worker to being a Unemployed Low-Skill Worker.
- They can be a member of a Low-Skill Worker Population.
- They can (typically) be a Less-Educated Worker.
- They can (often) be a Low-Wage Worker.
Example(s):
- a Low-Skilled Manual Worker/Laborer.
- a Home Care Support Worker.
- a Paid Driver, such as a truck driver or taxi driver.
- a Low-Skilled Service Worker.
- a Low-Skilled Retail Worker, such as a retail sales worker or a retail cashier.
- a Low-Skilled Information Worker.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- Medium-Skill Worker.
- High-Skill Worker.
See: Labor, Education Level, Skill-Mismatch Unemployment.

References

(Dustmann et al., 2009) ⇒ Christian Dustmann, Johannes Ludsteck, and Uta Schönberg. (2009). “Revisiting the German Wage Structure.” In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2).In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2). doi:10.1162/qjec.2009.124.2.843
- QUOTE: Several US studies show that fluctuations in relative labor supply play an important role in explaining trends in the skill premium (e.g. [[Katz and Murphy (1992)]], Card and Lemieux (2001)). We find that fluctuations in relative supply go a long way in explaining trends in the wage differential between the medium- and low-skilled, but only weakly predict trends in the wage differential between the high- and the medium-skilled. Why did the slowdown in skill upgrading and the erosion in labor market institutions happen a decade earlier in the US than in Germany?

(2006_TradingTasks) ⇒ Gene M. Grossman, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. (2006). “Trading Tasks: a simple theory of offshoring.” In: National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, 95(8).