New York City's new mayor, Eric Adams, said this week that service workers "don't have the academic skills to sit in the corner office." His statement is based on a common misconception about the ...

My local coffee shop, Goody’s Juice and Java, was where I mastered the art of so-called “unskilled” labor, or work that doesn’t require formal education. I had spent the previous summer working in a ...

Foxconn subverted local labor laws when it replaced qualified workers with student interns, but the increasing use of unskilled labor could be the missing link for technology manufacturers eager to ...

Skilled labor is a broad category that includes all jobs that require some level of professional training, certification, education, or specialized know-how. What does “skilled labor” mean? Skilled vs ...

We provide an empirical evaluation of the effects of a cut in social security contributions (i) for all types of labor and (ii) only for unskilled labor, within a computable generalequilibrium model ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times in the back-and-forth commentary over this or that issue, often centered around the issue of compensation: “If the Department of Labor didn’t ...

In Chapter Six ('Simple and Compound Labour') of Part Two of his classic work Anti-Dühring, Frederick Engels addresses a charge made by the German professor Eugen Dühring to the effect that in his ...

I don't get over to the SB much, but this one turned into an interesting debate and I figured Ars would enjoy this one. Essentiually it boils down to our company is seeing a massive amount of tenured ...

Posts on CD about the minimum wage always generate a higher than average number of comments, and Friday’s CD post (“Do Demand Curves Slope Down or Not?”) was no exception – there have been 46 comments ...

As part of the online web series Which Way Next, hosted by Singularity University, Vivek Wadhwa, VP of Academics and Innovation, sat down with Carl Bass, CEO at Autodesk, to explore some of the ...

International travel isn’t much fun. Getting up at 5 am. Battling with taxis and trains to get to the airport. Struggling to get the automated check-in machine to recognize my reservation. Half ...