Sentences with phrase «few skilled workers»

If a poor country is poor because of lack of skills, as Stanford's Paul Romer points out, the few skilled workers must be earning very high salaries.

Obama's executive actions on immigration don't focus on a key startup problem: Few skilled workers.

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This is not a plan to «create jobs» for low and medium - skilled workers in Leamington and London, who have few options now that their plants are closed.

It's a small, but fast - growing, niche that's making inroads in a number of ways — such as providing an alternative to overseas outsourcing while offering jobs in domestic areas that often have few employment options, particularly for skilled workers or those with college degrees.

I travel to China pretty regularly — about 3 months of the year, and based on discussions with a few locals, a lot of new developments are unaffordable, even for highly skilled workers like factory managers or engineers.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

In the Richmond district, there were «numerous reports of strong labor demand,» though the report also said few businesses offered permanent jobs to seasonal workers and there was high turnover among low - skill workers.

In what world is it realistic to look at this situation and to conclude that America has too few low - skill workers?

It's unclear why Tony Blair is better placed to advise the country on its profound human rights issues than the skilled global NGOs and international organisations who have, year after year, offered Kazakhstan advice on how, for instance, it can hold free elections, not murder striking workers and not silence bloggers or the country's few remaining independent journalists.

Who has realised that more skills for British workers would naturally lead to fewer immigrants because there wouldn't be vacancies to be filled?

«The reality is that migrants from other EU countries are very beneficial to the UK's economy, notably because they help to address skills shortages and pay more tax and social security contributions per head, and get fewer benefits, than UK workers; that free movement of workers is a key part of the EU's single market; that hundreds of thousands of UK nationals work in other EU countries.»

He said the biggest change is that much more factory work has been automated, and overseen by fewer, but more highly skilled workers.

«Employers want skilled workers, and few skills are in demand today as much as those in the cyber area,» Picente said.

«Human services workers are highly skilled and committed, but face pervasively low wages, high work load, and few career advancements,» said Jennifer Jones Austin of the FPWA.

Founded in 1954 as a collaboration of 12 European member states, CERN today employs slightly fewer than 3000 people, representing a wide range of skills: physicists, engineers, technicians, craftspeople, administrators, secretaries, workers.

Fortunately, an article in Bloomberg Businessweek provides a succinct takeaway of its effects for high - skilled workers: «If you're a recent college graduate, a doctoral candidate, or a highly - skilled professional who has been in the job market the past few years, you know it's rough out there.

The problem, Mote says, is that as the Pentagon buys fewer large weapons systems, DOD workers have fewer opportunities to hone their technical and leadership skills solving big, complicated problems.

On the basis of these projections, McKinsey's Global Institute estimates that over the next few years there will be a gap of nearly 2 million workers with the necessary analytical and technical skills.

As high unemployment rates and company downsizing have left many Americans discouraged and unsure of the future, community colleges across the country have experienced a tremendous surge in enrollment over the past few years, with a diverse range of students, from high school graduates to older, displaced workers, all seeking marketable skills to survive in a competitive economy.

One big reason why, they say, is too few U.S. workers with the right skills.

Referring to difficulties parents had in Philadelphia when the charter schools took over traditional schools, he said, «Students will have to leave and go far away to go to school, and there will be a loss of arts and music education, a loss of skilled cafeteria workers and fewer adults at every campus.»

The meteoric rise of this group of workers is down to a few factors, such as changing economic and market conditions, skills shortages and a shift in general working patterns.

Basic machine operations skills are usually achieved within a few weeks, but some workers may need a year or even more to learn the most difficult skills.

This type of job is popular with high school and college students, individuals new to the workplace, recent immigrants, and other workers with few professional skills.

While a Master Welder will have a wide variety of skills under his / her belt, other more entry level workers may choose to focus on just a few types of welding so they can more quickly, find employment, and begin building their careers.

Here are just a few of the skills workers in your industry need to succeed: • Telephone and email etiquette • Time management • Organization • Verbal communication

Workers at the lower end of the wage and skill spectrum find themselves struggling to make a decent living, with few or no benefits, little job security and minimal control over their work conditions.