Low-Skill Job

A Low-Skill Job is a job that only performs low-skill tasks.

• AKA: Lower Skilled Occupation.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be performed by a Low-Skill Worker.
  • It can (typically) be a Low-Wage Job.
• Example(s):
  • a Low-Skill Service Job, such as a Retail Sales Job, Cashiering Job, Fast-Food Job.
  • a Manual Labor Job.
  • a Janitorial Job.
  • a Restaurant Serving Job.
  • an Office Clerking Job.
  • a Customer Service Representing Job.
  • an Amazon Order Picker.
  • a Dog Walking Job.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Medium-Skill Job, such as Registered Nursing Job.
  • a High-Skill Job.
• See: Minimum-Wage Job, Meaningless Job, Informal Economy.

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References

2010

• (Acemoglu & Autor, 2010) ⇒ Daron Acemoglu, and David H. Autor. (2010). “Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings.” In: Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 4, Orley Ashenfelter (editor) and David E. Card (editor), Elsevier. ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53468-2
  • QUOTE: … (3) broad-based increases in employment in high skill and low skill occupations relative to middle skilled occupations (i.e., job 'polarization'); …

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