High-Skilled Worker

A High-Skilled Worker is a worker who requires a high-skill level (received significant training in some task) to perform their high-skill job.

• Context:
  • They can (typically) perform a High Skill Job.
  • They can (typically) be a Gifted Agent.
  • They can range from being a High-Skill Cognitive Worker to being a High-Skilled Creative Worker.
  • They can (often) be a High-Wage Worker.
  • They can be a member of a High-Skill Worker Population.
  • They can range from being an Employed High-Skill Worker to being a Unemployed High-Skill Worker.
  • They can (typically) be a Highly Educated Person, such as a College-Educated Worker.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • a Surgeon.
  • a Lawyer.
  • a Software Programming Worker.
  • a Symphony Conductor.
  • a Knowledge Worker.
  • a High-School Teacher.
  • a Sauté Chef.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Medium-Skilled Worker.
  • a Low Skill Worker.
  • a Highly-Creative Worker.
  • a Highly-Paid Worker.
• See: Occupation, Education Level.

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References

2011

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilled_worker
  • A skilled worker is any worker who has some special skill, knowledge, or (usually acquired) ability in their work. A skilled worker may have attended a college, university or technical school. Or, a skilled worker may have learned their skills on the job. An example of a skilled labor job is gamemaking and computer manufacturing.

2006

• (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).

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