The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) has defined
unskilled workers as those employed in 'elementary' occupations.
However, we argue that finding and keeping an
unskilled job at the expense of enhancing one's education is actually a lure that entices people into a life of poverty.
That includes making sweeping educational and vocational changes to give India's
unskilled people the necessary tools to find jobs at home.
Because competition over talent will intensify and push wages upwards, workers who are high-skilled and well-educated will be in a better position to benefit -- a situation that could see millions of
unskilled workers wage and welfare decline.
Abdullah Al-Sagheer, a Saudi associated with the small and medium enterprises sector, told Arab News that many expatriates buy visas for
unskilled professions.
As the state government and local health districts hurtle towards a model of replacing skilled staff with
unskilled staff, I am astounded by the speed at which the issues brought up by the Garling Report have been forgotten.
The proposal is based on three major issues and the official institutions have been invited to give their views on the possibility of introducing a quota system based on nationalities, limiting the number of
unskilled labour and putting a cap on the number of years foreigners can spend in the country.
Whereas immigrants in the past became entrepreneurs often out of necessity due to a shortage of suitable labor market opportunities in view of their limited skills and discrimination against them, the recent waves of highly-skilled immigrants with advanced degrees, especially in the fields of science, technology, mathematics and engineering, the so-called "STEM" disciplines, while not immune from discrimination, have achieved enormous success because their motivations for becoming self-employed are typically vastly different from those of their
unskilled counterparts.
Unskilled workers in many developed countries and especially in the United States have seen a significant decline in their relative wages, while at the same time international trade increased considerably.
Summary: A top Ministry of Interior official has denied media reports of a ban of tourist visas for
unskilled workers.
The Bahrain Labour Union Free Federation (BLUFF), which was formed last Wednesday, wants separate pay grades for skilled and
unskilled Bahrainis and expats.
This paper discusses the large reductions in full-time employment among
unskilled Australian males that began in the 1970s and continued over the next three to four decades.
