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The ecology alchemists
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The Lowell high-tech success story: what went wrong?
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 ...
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Chasing the tail of high-tech
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Austin's high-tech industry: played out or just beginning?
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Focus on high-tech: what's in a name?: gauging high-tech activity
The Boston metro area fares well when assessing a regions high-tech capacity by its share of scientific and technical occupations.
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High tech leads District exports
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Observations: top-heavy job loss
The job downturn has fallen heavily on the highest wage industries.
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Job polarization and rising inequality in the nation and the New York-northern New Jersey region
Since the 1980s, employment opportunities in both the United States and the New York?northern New Jersey region have become increasingly polarized. While technological advances and globalization have created new jobs for workers at the high end of the skill spectrum and largely spared the service jobs of workers at the low end, these forces have displaced many jobs involving routine tasks?traditionally the sphere of middle-skill workers. Moreover, these same forces have pushed up wages for high-skill workers disproportionately, contributing to increased wage inequality. The rise in inequality ...
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The Austin technology incubator