Journal Article
The Lowell high-tech success story: what went wrong?
Gittell, Ross J.; Flynn, Patricia M. (1995-03)
Ten years ago Lowell, Massachusetts was a high-tech success story. After several decades of stagnation, the Lowell area had emerged as a thriving center for high-technology employment. The Lowell story was viewed as a "model for reindustrialization" for older cities throughout the world. In recent years Lowell has once again become the focus of international attention, this time as an example of a failed economic development strategy. Widespread layoffs and plant closings within its computer industry, particularly the collapse of Wang Laboratories, have dealt a crushing blow to the local ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Mar , Pages 57-70

Journal Article
New England’s foreign-born population today
Gittell, Ross J.; Lord, Timothy (2009-01)
Since the 1600s, immigrants have been drawn to New England, and even now parts of the region would be losing population and economic vitality if not for the foreign-born population. UNH?s Carsey Institute analyzes the demographics.
Communities and Banking , Issue Win , Pages 20-23

Journal Article
Changes in income distribution in New England
Gittell, Ross J.; Rudokas, Jason (2007-10)
Although by some measures New Englanders are doing well economically, the region has experienced the largest jump in household income inequality of all nine census divisions. The authors parse the data.
Communities and Banking , Issue Fall , Pages 20-23

Journal Article
New England as the twenty-first century approaches: no time for complacency
Flynn, Patricia M.; Sedgley, Norman H.; Gittell, Ross J. (1999-11)
New England has undergone significant change in its employment and labor force over the past three decades. Employment in the region has shifted from manufacturing into services at a faster rate than it has in the United States as a whole. Within manufacturing the trend has been away from nondurable goods into high value-added, high-tech industries. In this transition, both income and productivity have increased more rapidly in the region than in the nation. ; Recent trends in population, labor force, and college degrees awarded pose threats to New England's long-term prosperity, however. ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Nov , Pages 41-53

Journal Article
New Hampshire's working women
Gittell, Ross J.; Smith, Marjorie (2006-07)
A recent study dissects the reasons behind the lower wages of women in New Hampshire and suggests how policies that help women could also boost the state?s economy.
Communities and Banking , Issue Sum , Pages 14-17

Journal Article
Tracking jobs in clean industries in New England
Gittell, Ross J.; Stillwagon, Josh (2011-07)
Tracking jobs in clean industries?often called ?green jobs??is difficult because, unlike the high-technology sector, the clean-industries sector lacks a standard definition of which industries the sector actually comprises. This article explores four definitions of the sector: two defined by measures developed by analysts at highly respected institutions, and two defined by measures we created based on widely used databases. We use these definitions to analyze the composition and concentration of jobs in clean industries in New England and each state in the region and compare these figures ...
New England Economic Indicators , Issue Q3 , Pages 4-14