With so many young, unskilled workers looking for work, employers can pick and choose.
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Another problem is that it includes many unskilled workers who work in knowledge industries.
It has had to contend with a greedy middleman, unskilled workers, labor unrest, bad press and threatened suits.
But Labour also hinted that unskilled workers would no longer be able to work their way towards citizenship.
Given South Africa's high unemployment, unskilled workers are easy to replace, but skilled and semi-skilled workers are not.
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New technology will be introduced along with labor-saving capital investment, and skilled workers will tend to replace unskilled workers.
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This has encouraged firms to employ more young, part-time and unskilled workers, whom previously they could not afford to hire.
At other firms, skill differentials will eventually ripple through the wage structure based on the new minimum wage for unskilled workers.
Unskilled workers or stupid landowners alike, they are crushed by a system they cannot master and find themselves ejected on the roadside.
Competition from cheaper imports will reduce the wages of unskilled workers in developed economies, but workers as a whole will be better off.
While much of Kodak's highly educated work force was able to land jobs, its unskilled workers face a harder reality, local business leaders say.
One potential answer to this dilemma is to build tools that will help unskilled workers to acquire valuable career skills through normal life activities.
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Third, the demand for labour has fallen since the mid-1980s as technological change reduced the need for unskilled workers and as companies have restructured.
This is partly because many of these job losses have been in industries such as toymaking, textiles and construction, which use migrant and unskilled workers.
And American firms, faced like British ones with a high proportion of unskilled workers, make a far better fist of training them for specific jobs.
"The unemployment rates for unskilled workers without high school diplomas, or only a high school diploma, are the highest in the United States, " says Briggs.
The same may not be true for unskilled workers in Germany, who will have to find work at rates dictated by Germany's entrenched system of centralised bargaining.
Numerous studies have shown that when the real minimum wage is pushed above the prevailing market wage for unskilled workers, jobs are lost and others never created.
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For some reason, people seem far more willing to believe that the net economic contribution of unskilled workers is positive if they are born in this country.
Thus, unskilled workers cost too much and the talented have too little incentive to invest in their education, or to switch from lacklustre industries to booming ones.
Forecasts of a shortage of skilled and unskilled workers had led to an international recruiting drive, but have more recently given way to a preference for local labor.
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One concern is that they are out-competing native unskilled workers.
The Law of Demand (the higher the price of anything, the less will be taken) predicts that employment will be adversely affected, especially for young and unskilled workers.
It is generally accepted that trade with poor countries has been one of the factors reducing the wages of unskilled workers, relative to skilled ones, in the United States.
The idea that there is some kind of line that unskilled workers could stand in and wait their turn to gain legal residency is a complete figment of the restrictionist imagination.
That means that processors are clamouring for unskilled workers.
Finally, conservatives should consider comprehensive immigration reform that would allow skilled and unskilled workers to seek their American dream while granting parole, not amnesty, to those hard-working migrants now here illegally.
For unskilled workers, several cheaper tactics are cost-effective.
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