While government officials might emphasize the presence of high skilled workers, many can be found in low skill environments, including the oil, agriculture, and construction industries.
You see stagnant wages for high skilled workers, when these companies tell you that they desperately need high skilled workers.
But on average one location may attract mainly low skilled workers whilst another attracts high skilled workers.
In particular, we find larger effects for more disadvantaged categories: effects are higher for low skilled than for high skilled workers (45% versus 40%) and for older workers with respect to the younger cohort (43% versus 37%).
I've watched American companies stagnate because of arbitrary limits on visas for high skilled workers.
"While Smith indicates in the interview that the UK is accepting of high skilled workers – engineers, PhD students, etc – it doesn't ring true to the many migrant PhD students who are put into enormous precarity.
Occupational level was categorized as (1) low (unskilled/unemployed workers), (2) medium (partially skilled workers), and (3) high (skilled workers).
In most countries the better educated and higher skilled workers are rewarded more for their work, but is this really bad?
Paul Beaudry of UBC observes, "Many higher skilled workers have moved down the occupation ladder and accepted less challenging employment".
The global economic race is strongly linked to educational performance and the OECD report shows how the UK's share of the highest skilled workers is falling.
Certainly, there is evidence to suggest that lower skilled workers report greater job insecurity more than higher skilled workers [ 22] and that job insecurity rose in Australia during 2008 with the onset of the GFC [ 23].
