The city's Labour pool tends to be highly-skilled, and the impact of the recession was mostly felt by the lower-skilled.
这个城市的劳动力往往是高技能人才,而经济衰退影响到的大多只是更低技能的人。
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Richer and higher-skilled people would gain, while there could be losers among lower-skilled employees facing greater competition from overseas workers and immigrants.
The lesson from America, Britain and elsewhere is that the more highly skilled people settle in very quickly and that many of the lower-skilled also catch up eventually.