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- "There's no doubt that a person — especially someone with formal apprenticeship training — can do quite reasonably in a skilled trade," Dale Belman, a Michigan State University economist who specializes in construction labor markets, told The Week. "That's not news to anybody." But this point also comes with a ton of caveats, from the state of the labor market, to whether or not the job is unionized, to the particular qualities and challenges of work in the trades.