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"We have a less skilled workforce, using less good technology, under less good management," says Patricia Hewitt, the industry minister.
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The demand for less skilled (unskilled) workforce remained the highest as highlighted in Table 3.
Professional and semi-skilled workers remained less in demand as compared to skilled (31.2%) and less skilled (55.2%) workforce.
First, the premium for skilled workers has been falling: a surge in secondary education has increased the supply of literate, reasonably well-schooled workers, and years of steady growth have raised relative demand for the less skilled in the formal workforce, whether as construction workers or cleaners.
Regular workforce studies shows us that the apprenticeship model works – countries with strong apprenticeship systems (Switzerland, Germany, Austria) have robust economies due to a skilled workforce, and less than half the rate of youth unemployment found in the U.S. Take Switzerland for example, only 30% of youth follow the academic path, while the vast majority, 70% take on an apprenticeship.
There is no evidence that the workforce has become less skilled since the recession.
"In the short term, some young people who would have gone to university will end up on benefits, in the long term, we will have a workforce that is less skilled".
An abundance of poorly paid migrants means less incentive to upgrade to a more skilled workforce.
He advocated a more utilitarian and less literary education system, to produce a skilled workforce that could realise Australia's potential as an efficient industrial state.
–Turf protection and reluctance to let go of some tasks to a workforce perceived to be less skilled.
"I think we should be very careful about doing something that can make Texas less competitive for investment, jobs and the highly skilled workforce needed to compete," Straus said at a Texas Association of Business meeting in January.
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