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The best option is to better educate the unskilled, but this is a cumbersome, time-consuming process that offers no short-term solution.
The second option is to pay wage subsidies instead of wage replacement incomes to allow for the wage dispersion necessary for full employment without letting the incomes of the unskilled fall.
Western Europe has already experienced three decades of indirect migration into the welfare state, as social benefits have created artificially high wages for the unskilled, simultaneously fueling excessive immigration and unemployment.
Many women migrants are unskilled or undocumented domestic workers.
And landlords pay a 15% tax on rents, while unskilled workers pay a 23% tax on their meager incomes.
The Brain-Drain Panic ReturnsNEW YORK – While developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a different set of concerns has surfaced in Africa, in particular, over the legal outflow of skilled, and even more importantly, highly skilled, people to developed countries.
Governments have proved unable to protect unskilled and semi-skilled employees from the consequences of globalization and technological change.
And even the administration’s plan to favor skilled over unskilled workers will not necessarily reduce the number of legal migrants in the country.
The liberalization of international capital markets has been unequivocally good for 800 million unskilled Chinese workers.
But for Westerners whose primary source of income is the sale of their unskilled labor to the marketplace, the era of globalization has coincided with decades of wage stagnation.
When they promote globalization as a universal leveler, they are generally not thinking about the welfare of unskilled Chinese workers so much as their own self-interest.
At the same time, inflation-adjusted wages for rich-country unskilled workers have barely budged over the last two decades.
Unfortunately, the long-term trend towards ever-lower income shares for unskilled workers is likely to continue over the coming decades, as modern technology permeates the globe, and as emerging markets like China, India, Brazil, and Eastern Europe continue to integrate into global production.
This is not to say that unskilled workers are actually being made worse off by globalization in absolute terms; the vast majority are actually breaking even or better.
But unskilled workers’ incomes are not keeping pace with overall economic growth, and the resulting social strains are a ticking bomb.
As Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya have pointed out,excessive labor-market regulations deter Indian entrepreneurs from employing unskilled workers and developing labor-intensive manufacturing, implying that the Indian government should redouble its reform efforts in this area.
Low labor force participation is a result of the relatively low productivity of Puerto Rico’s unskilled workers.
Palestinians’ access to Egypt was restricted, and much of Gaza’s largely unskilled workforce was dependent on the UN Relief Works Administration, which built and maintained the local refugee camps.
The commodities that the US imports from abroad embody a significant amount of relatively unskilled labor, but they do not displace much unskilled labor in America.
Meanwhile, new technologies raise demand for skilled workers, while reducing demand for their less-skilled counterparts – a trend that fuels the expansion of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled.
In East Asia, unskilled workers were put to work in urban factories, making several times what they earned in the countryside.
In addition to providing a much-needed source of skilled and unskilled labor, they contribute disproportionately to innovation and wealth creation.
The super-rich have received round after round of tax cuts and special tax breaks, easy credits from central banks, and exceptional gains from technologies that are boosting profits while lowering unskilled workers’ wages.
Given their simplicity, fog-harvesting systems have minimal running costs and are easily managed by unskilled teams.
France’s unemployed are, to that extent, better off than many low-paid, unskilled workers in the more unequal societies of Britain or America.
In the retail sector, which employs a huge number of Japan’s unskilled workers – the so-called “mom and pop” shops – Japanese productivity is now 25% lower than in Western Europe.
The mobility of university graduates is much higher than the mobility of unskilled workers.
High-productivity services – such as IT or finance – require well-trained workers, not the unskilled kind that poor countries have in abundance.
Slavery, too, is back, in the form of global trafficking in indentured women and unskilled workers from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia.
If the government is properly fulfilling its duty to prevent a demand-shortfall depression, technological progress in a market economy need not impoverish unskilled workers.
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