The goals of this project have been to provide low-cost, soundly based turbine design solutions that systematically cover the 0.2 20 kW supply, that are uniquely resistant to debris blockage and are easily built by tradesmen of medium skills in regional workshops.
He said Europe had no choice but to keep up the momentum of change, given the challenges it faces from an aging population and, especially, the hollowing-out of medium-skill jobs because of technological change and competition from emerging markets.
But providing access to systematic primary care for 30 million newcomers is bound to create new demand, not just for doctors and nurses but (as Jonathan Gruber of MIT has written) for assistants and technicians and support staff – "precisely the sort of medium-skill jobs that our economy desperately needs".
Job polarization has been linked to skills mismatch by Goos and Manning (2007), who argue that the scarcity of medium-skill jobs may force educated workers to take low-skill jobs.
Job polarization means that the share of high- and low-skill jobs grow at the expense of medium-skill jobs, and such trends have been linked to the decline in the demand for routine or codifiable tasks, including both manual and cognitive tasks (Acemoglu and Autor 2011; Goos et al. 2014, 2013).
The value of this indicator on medium-skill jobs was relatively stable in 2002 2008, which was followed by a one percentage point jump in 2010 and a slight further increase in 2012.
By that point, though, it was Ms. Lopez, with her long history of turning medium skill into maximum payoff, who was leading the panel, with incisive critiques and a genuinely nurturing presence missing since Paula Abdul left the show in 2009.
Fortunately, we were at the same medium skill level and were super supportive of each other.
Even at a medium skill level, that can be difficult.
One is that there seems to be a hollowing out of the medium-skill jobs that many of us do.
The "hollowing out" of the labour market, with the disappearance of some medium-skill jobs, has been accompanied by growing wage inequality, as the Resolution Foundation (among others) has shown.
