Low-skilled workers could also be forced out of jobs by an increase intended to help them, they say.

Another explanation is the stronger labor market for low-skilled workers.

The result is higher average worker productivity than in America, where low-skilled workers find work more easily.

The solution was to import low-skilled workers from other Communist countries.

After all, how exactly does one prevent the outsourcing of good jobs for low-skilled workers?

But a modest hike is not likely to cause higher unemployment, even among low-skilled workers.

Indeed, a large majority of low-skilled workers are native to the United States.

They tend to be low-skilled workers employed by small firms."

"They underline how much worse off the low-skilled worker has become."

In reality, computers are allowing low-skilled workers to perform complex functions.

Simply living in a county with a lower unemployment rate does not necessarily make it easier for a low-skilled worker to find a job.

The need for low-skilled workers is declining as we continue to shift toward a service- and technology-based economy.

Increased trade with developing countries will aggravate the economic woes of low-skilled workers.

He also reminds us that the voices of these low-skilled workers are ignored in the debate over immigration.

This, in turn, decreased the demand for low-skilled workers.

The roots were economic, he said, planted in the loss of well-paying jobs for low-skilled workers.

In the absence of replacement jobs for low-skilled workers, the black families who did not leave the cities were forced to join the welfare system.

And it came when the wages of low-skilled workers were already in a free fall because of global competition.

However, the depressed wages of low-skilled workers will lower the economic incentive to import these products.

Wages and benefits for low-skilled workers could be improved by decreasing their numbers - through changes in our immigration policy.

Tier 3 - for low-skilled workers filling specific temporary labour shortages.

What has changed is that highly skilled laborers earn more labor income than low-skilled workers.

But his program would leave most employed low-skilled workers to wallow in dead-end jobs.

Even the study admits that the best outcome for American low-skilled workers is the removal of the illegal immigrant population.

But wages for low-skilled workers have also eroded.