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The high-tech investment boom and economic growth in the 1990s: accounting for quality
The rapid pace of economic growth in the 1990s was associated with an increasingly prominent role for investment, particularly for information processing and communications technologies. Given the evident pace of technological advancement in these sectors, official economic statistics have been constructed to take careful account of improvements in the quality of these high-tech capital goods. In this article, Michael R. Pakko examines the possibility that this selective accounting for quality improvement has distorted the true importance of high-tech investment in recent economic growth ...
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Austin's high-tech industry: played out or just beginning?
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To market, to market: strategy in high-tech business
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On the move: California employment law and high-tech development
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Noteworthy: demographics, auto industry, Texas jobs
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Techno babel: the technology-driven economy
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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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Observations: top-heavy job loss
The job downturn has fallen heavily on the highest wage industries.