The Indeterminateness of Wages of Semiskilled Workers

The failure of labor markets to produce determinate rates for each occupation as postulated by traditional theory may be explained, according to this article, in large part by the nature of the hiring process. Diversity of wages among semiskilled workers, who usually are hired on a nonoccupational basis, is considerably greater than among skilled and unskilled workers, who are employed on the basis of their qualifications for specific types of work. The author supports his argument through an analysis of wage data from the recently completed community occupational wage surveys of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Robert L. Raimon is assistant professor, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornel1 University. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)

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