# Contested concept: low-productivity

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: This semantic shift allows proponents to frame the elimination of certain jobs as a structural upgrade rather than a policy failure, while opponents use it to signify a loss of opportunity.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/low-productivity` (data: `/concept/low-productivity.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Economically inefficient business models that rely on cheap labor rather than capital investment or innovation.** — used in 3 claim(s)
- **Work performed by individuals who lack the high-level skills currently demanded by the labor market.** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [The elimination of low-productivity, low-wage jobs as part of a transition to a high-productivity economy should be viewed as a positive or…](/claim/claim_05df2617a76b.md) _(sense: Economically inefficient business models that rely on cheap labor rather than capital investment or innovation.)_
- [Society generally does not view the loss of low-productivity jobs as a negative outcome when those losses are caused by regulations regardi…](/claim/claim_35f7c68199ef.md) _(sense: Economically inefficient business models that rely on cheap labor rather than capital investment or innovation.)_
- [David Autor of MIT was historically a prominent advocate of the 'skills hypothesis,' which suggests that inequality is driven by the increa…](/claim/claim_686ee0774338.md) _(sense: Work performed by individuals who lack the high-level skills currently demanded by the labor market.)_
- [In the long term, transitioning an economy to a high-productivity and high-wage path necessarily requires the elimination of low-productivi…](/claim/claim_6f9ae9a5b0f0.md) _(sense: Economically inefficient business models that rely on cheap labor rather than capital investment or innovation.)_
- [Stagnant and declining wages in the United States labor market are not the result of an increasing demand for worker skills.](/claim/claim_d61041df291c.md) _(sense: Work performed by individuals who lack the high-level skills currently demanded by the labor market.)_