Burden Quote by Edward Conard

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

— Stephen F. Lynch

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Low-skilled workers tend to bid down wages for low-skilled work, which sounds bad until you remember that this lowers the cost of the products…

— Don Watkins

Let's not kid ourselves about just how cheap offshore labor really is. We not only pay substantially less per hour: we also avoid the…

— Edward Conard

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose…

— Robert Kuttner

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what…

— Hilaire Belloc

In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true…

— Christina Romer

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

— Ron Paul

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

— James Cook

Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor-intensive, process-oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective…

— Michael Spence

One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of American jobs…

— Donald Trump

The typical jobs that a lower-skilled immigration worker might do might be construction work, it might be hospitality work, it might be restaurant work,…

— Stephen Miller