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And that 16 per cent tends to be concentrated in the lower levels of the profession: about 61 per cent are in low-paid, low-skill jobs.

"It meant some people, especially with family sponsorship, could get through with very low skill levels, " he said.

The biggest drops in income were all in states that depend on low-skill industries: Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

The abstract begins with a puzzle: "Prostitution is low-skill, labour intensive, female and well paid. "

The United States long ago surrendered most low-skill manufacturing and assembly to China.

Outdated constraints on industries that employ low-skill labor must be relaxed.

Prostitution is, seemingly, a low-skill but high-pay profession with few upfront costs, micro-miniskirts and stiletto heels aside.

The factories in deepest trouble are said to be in low-cost, low-skill areas: toys, plastics, shoes, clothing and so on.

They run for office claiming they'll "protect" low-skill, low-wage domestic jobs from the threat of cheap foreign labor.

Analysis by David Autor indicates that from 1999 to 2007, low-skill jobs grew substantially as a share of all jobs in the United States.

Jobs in low-skill service occupations such as food preparation, personal care, and house cleaning were also fairly stable.

Moving low-skill jobs to western China will be hard enough.

The worst affected are those who had high-wage, low-skill jobs.

In Spain, for example, 44% of college- and university-educated youngsters are working in low-skill jobs.