Medium-Skilled Worker

A Medium-Skilled Worker is a skilled worker whose worker skill level is between low-skilled worker and a high-skilled worker.

• AKA: Semi-Skilled Worker.
• Context:
  • They can range from (typically) being an Employed Medium-Skill Worker to being a Unemployed Medium-Skill Worker.
  • They can (typically) be a member of a Medium-Skill Worker Population.
  • They can (typically) perform a Medium-Skill Job.
  • They can (typically) be an Educated Person.
  • They can (often) be a Medium-Wage Worker.
• Example(s):
  • a Fast-Food Restaurant Manager.
  • an Elementary School Teacher.
  • a Rehabilation Nurse.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Low-Skilled Worker.
  • a High-Skilled Worker.
• See: Job Polarization, Middle-Class Hollowing Out, Worker Deskilling.

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References

2009

• (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?

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