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The loss underscores a growing divide between expedition members, who pay top dollar to reach the summit, and their highly skilled Sherpa guides, who are paid a relative pittance and too often are taken for granted.
This vicious cycle particularly affects recent college graduates and low skilled workers.
Yet the farther inland producers went, the less skilled the employees and the higher the costs of transporting goods to market became.
Almost every country in the world – especially the US – has well-organized and influential agricultural industries that are highly skilled at pushing their governments to secure advantages for them in new trade deals.
The go-it-alone strategy practiced by most African countries has left them vulnerable to the whims of former colonial powers determined to perpetuate an international division of labor that assigns to Africa the role of supplier of basic products and raw materials, rather than skilled, well-paid labor.
The gains are much higher for skilled workers, so the mobility rate increases with education.
India also needs a relevant curriculum and skilled teachers who can motivate students to learn it – in short, an overdue emphasis on quality, in addition to officals’ understandable focus on access and inclusion.
Digital technology can also ensure that patients in remote areas receive care from highly skilled providers.
For less skilled workers, however, service-sector jobs meant giving up the negotiated benefits of industrial capitalism.
One reason for the IPCC’s notable success has been the skilled guiding hand of the IPCC Chairman, Dr. R. K. Pachauri, who will accept the prize on the body’s behalf.
But retail shop clerks and car dealers cannot be easily transformed into the specialized and highly skilled workers needed in modern manufacturing.
But instead of seizing the opportunity in front of them, German policymakers have been busy worrying about the elimination of skilled labor altogether.
But one striking feature of the modern economy is how few skilled people are needed to drive crucial areas of economic activity.
If more people become more highly skilled lawyers, legal cases may be fought more effectively and expensively on both sides, but with no net increase in human welfare.
In Auckland, New Zealand, where one-third of the population is foreign-born, the Omega project, inspired by a Canadian initiative, matches new migrants with skilled mentors and offers paid internships.
These flows reflect the growing shortage of skilled workers and declining populations (particularly in Europe) that are beginning to bedevil the developed world.
But this tolerance is confined to the skilled and the wealthy.
Indeed, the economic justification--that skilled immigrants tend to be net economic contributors while low-skilled workers impose a fiscal burden and threaten low-skilled natives--is weak.
In each village, a woman skilled in communication will teach families how to prepare balanced meals and ensure adequate nutrition for children.
It brings an element of hard-nosed critical rationality into all societal debate, and fosters awareness of uncertainty and change in the professional education of skilled practitioners.
The same sort of logic applies to the large states: France and Germany are losing skilled labor at the same time as they are drawing in cheaper labor from Eastern Europe.
Moreover, the hundreds of millions of low-cost workers who joined the global labor force when China, India, and Eastern Europe opened their economies are still putting pressure on the wages of all but the most skilled workers in the advanced economies.
A stop-gap measure that permits firms to hire workers for temporary assignments, on condition that they not be renewed, condemns the least skilled to a demoralizing cycle of short-term jobs and repeated spells of unemployment.
The success of both countries reflects many contributing factors, including a skilled and educated group of policymakers supplied by a meritocratic selection system, and a pragmatic, disciplined, experimental, and forward-looking approach to policy.
The new knitting frames and power looms could weave yarn into cloth much faster than the most skilled artisan weaver working in his own cottage.
A technological leap that raises the wages of the skilled and educated will induce others to become skilled and educated, restoring balance so that inequality does not grow too much.
Good teachers are undoubtedly the key to quality education; but they can do only so much if they are not provided with skilled supervision, a well-organized curriculum, and access to technology.
He is a skilled rabble-rouser, whose inflammatory rhetoric against immigrants and refugees – “We’re going to build that wall high and we’re going to build it tall!”– drives the crowds at Trump rallies into a frenzy.
Currently, only about half of all women worldwide deliver with a skilled attendant present.
In sub-Saharan Africa, less than 40% of women deliver with skilled care; in South Asia, the figure is less than 30%.
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