How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers

How Much Does It Hurt? The Impact of Agricultural Trade Policies on Developing Countries

Unskilled Workers in an Economy with Skill-Biased Technology

This paper contributes to the search theory of unemployment by endogenously generating matching functions for skilled and unskilled workers from a wage-posting game. The model is capable of producing a positive skill premium and a positive wage di®erential among homogeneous unskilled workers. The skill premium arises from a skill-biased technology; the wage di®erential among unskilled workers s...

Balancing assembly line with skilled and unskilled workers

In this paper, we present the process of rebalancing the line at motorcycle-assembly plant. The company found it necessary to rebalance its line, since it needs to increase production in the spring and summer months. The main characteristics of the problem are as follows: (i) the company hires temporary staff, who need more time to carry out their tasks than permanent workers; (ii) there must a...

Integrated Assembly Line Balancing with Skilled and Unskilled Workers

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing an integrated assembly line when many skilled and unskilled workers are available. This problem arises when there are certain limited resources available such as skilled workers in which the operation time for every task is different depending on assignment of the unskilled workers to help the skilled workers. The selection of both skilled wor...

The cost of business cycles for unskilled workers

This paper reconsiders the cost of business cycles under incomplete markets. Primarily, we focus on the heterogeneity in the cost of business cycles among agents with different skill levels. Unskilled workers are subject to a much larger risk of unemployment during recessions than are skilled workers. Moreover, unskilled workers earn less income, which limits their ability to self-insure. We ex...