Brick construction was cheaper than stone due to the economies of scale in mass production and the lower level of skill needed to put it in place.
Restricting the sample to dual job holders, one sees that these workers' second jobs involved a noticeably lower level of skill (−0.08 vs. 0.21, a 0.3 s.d. difference) and slightly more demanding working conditions (−0.11 vs. −0.17).
Sometimes in areas where the new wages were applied, factories would struggle to recruit workers for important tasks because the reform had given a low pay grade to a task that was considered to require a lower level of skill.
But if you break the figures down, it's our over-50s who have the lower level of skills, whereas our figures for 16- to 24-year-olds are more or less on a par with national figures".
Functionally, mobile phones are easier to use for people with lower level of skills than those needed for computers or the Internet, both of which usually require land lines.
What poor countries need is lots of people, trained flexibly and quickly, at lower levels of skill, he says.
Shooting a civilian (e.g. a member of the IRA shooting a Protestant at random in Northern Ireland) requires much lower levels of skill and expertise than a co-ordinated bombing.
The evidence for Argentina, in fact, reveals a strong increase in the relative supply of semi-skilled (high school graduates) and skilled (college graduates) workers, to the detriment of those with lower levels of skills (those with less than a high school degree).
The report was commissioned by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) after research showed young people in England had lower levels of skills than the previous generation, and below those of Poland and Spain.
(Old Age Psychiatrist, England) What I think is most important is that the expertise of the people who provide palliative care should be further developed, while I see that, especially in home care organisations, increasingly lower levels of skills are used for these types of patients.
These indicators are related to the adoption decision-making, as well as the adoption process itself, seeing that a higher awaiting time normally corresponded to the wish for younger children or even a lower level of parenting skills in order to answer responsively to the child's needs.
