In the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, this was reflected in very small increases in real labor compensation per worker and a growing earnings gap between skilled and unskilled sectors ...

In fact, the centrality of “labor shortages” to immigration policy may be the primary reason why these debates prove so intractable, and why our high-skilled immigration system is so dysfunctional.

Lowe argues that the real problem with allegedly unskilled labor is "how skill gets interpreted ... to value skills and classify people as skilled who hold formal degrees — who are formally ...