Low-Skill Job
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A Low-Skill Job is a job that only performs low-skill tasks.
- AKA: Lower Skilled Occupation.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be performed by a Low-Skill Worker.
- It can (typically) be a Low-Wage Job.
- Example(s):
- a Low-Skill Service Job, such as a Retail Sales Job, Cashiering Job, Fast-Food Job.
- a Manual Labor Job.
- a Janitorial Job.
- a Restaurant Serving Job.
- an Office Clerking Job.
- a Customer Service Representing Job.
- an Amazon Order Picker.
- a Dog Walking Job.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Medium-Skill Job, such as Registered Nursing Job.
- a High-Skill Job.
- See: Minimum-Wage Job, Meaningless Job, Informal Economy.
References
2010
- (Acemoglu & Autor, 2010) ⇒ Daron Acemoglu, and David H. Autor. (2010). “Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings.” In: Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 4, Orley Ashenfelter (editor) and David E. Card (editor), Elsevier. ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53468-2
- QUOTE: … (3) broad-based increases in employment in high skill and low skill occupations relative to middle skilled occupations (i.e., job 'polarization'); …