The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap
The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap
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低技能、糟糕工作的陷阱
DOI：
10.1017/cbo9780511582332.007
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发表时间：
1994
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通讯作者：
D. Snower
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作者：
D. Snower
该论文解释了一个国家如何陷入“低技能、糟糕工作的陷阱”，即工人获得的培训不足，企业提供的技术职位不足。该论文特别指出，在大部分劳动力缺乏技能的国家，企业几乎没有动力提供好工作（需要高技能并提供高工资），如果好工作很少，工人就没有动力去获得技能。在此背景下，本文探讨了培训政策的必要性和有效性，并为为什么西方国家对劳动力需求从非熟练劳动力向熟练劳动力的广泛转变做出如此不同的反应提供了可能的解释。
The paper explains how a country can fall into a 'low-skill, bad-job trap', in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms have little incentive to provide good jobs (requiring high skills and providing high wages), and if few good jobs are available, workers have little incentive to acquire skills. In this context, the paper examines the need for and effectiveness of training policy, and provides a possible explanation for why Western countries have responded so differently to the broad-based shift in labour demand from unskilled to skilled labour.