Low-Skill Task

A Low-Skill Task is a task that requires minimal human skill.

Context:
- It can be a task of a Low-Skill Job (performed by low-skill worker).
Example(s):
- Cashiering Task (by a cashier).
- Selling Task, e.g. in a Retail Sales Job by a Retail Sales Representative.
- Assembly Line Task.
- Building Painting Task.
- Customer Service Task.
- Data Entry Task (by a Data Entry Worker).
- Construction Tool-centric Task (by a Laborer).
- Litter Removal Task.
- Produce Picking Task.
- Taxi Driving Task (by a taxi driver).
- Home Care Support Task (by a home care support worker).
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- a Medium-Skill Task.
- a High-Skill Task, such as: Teaching, Software Programming, Surgery, Design.
See: Green Collar Job.

References

(2006_TradingTasks) ⇒ Gene M. Grossman, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. (2006). “Trading Tasks: a simple theory of offshoring.” In: National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, 95(8).
- QUOTE: We conceptualize the production process in terms of tasks. Each task requires the input of some factor of production. Some tasks can be performed by workers who have relatively little education or training, while others must be performed by workers who have greater skills. We refer to the former as “L-tasks” and the latter as “H-tasks.” There may be still other tasks that are performed by other factors of production; for example, capital, or additional categories of labor. … In which industry is it easier to offshore the tasks performed by low-skilled labor?