更新2014年10月自考英语二完形补文翻译

Labor Market Decline

The decline of the labor market is easy to misinterpret. There are many reasons for that. During the 1970s, large numbers of women and young adults born during the baby boom entered into the work force. That resulted in too many workers for the jobs available and depressed wages. The decline also has something to do with the explosive growth in world trade since 1960. As manufacturing technologies have become more mobile, production jobs have moved from the U.S. to countries where wages are low. In addition, technology itself has helped to cause the shifts in the job market. For example, fewer American workers are needed to make steel today than in the past, because new machines have made many of their tasks unnecessary. Finally, the high rate of unemployment caused by these factors had tended to drive wages down further.

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劳动力市场的衰退很容易被误解。原因有很多。在20世纪70年代，大量妇女和出生于婴儿潮时期的年轻人进入劳动力市场。这导致了可用工作岗位过多，工资水平下降。劳动力市场的衰退还与自1960年以来世界贸易的爆炸性增长有关。随着制造技术变得更加移动，生产岗位从美国转移到了工资低廉的国家。此外，技术本身也在促进就业市场的变化。例如，今天美国需要的钢铁工人比过去少了很多，因为新的机器使他们的许多任务变得不再必要。最后，由这些因素引起的高失业率进一步压低了工资水平。