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Title: Philadelphia in Transition: Advancing an Equitable Economy in a Regional Shift from Industry to Innovation
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: Over the past several decades the U.S. economy has undergone tremendous shifts with the precipitous decline of manufacturing, the rapid growth of digital and automation technologies, and the polarization of job growth between high- and low-wage occupations with middle-wage job growth trailing behind. These changes have predominantly benefitted educated workers, fueling widening inequality and calling into question the future of good jobs for the majority of workers who do not have college degrees. To better understand the relationships between these industry-level changes and their implications for building solid pathways into the middle class, PolicyLink and the University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) examine these economic changes in the nation’s largest metropolitan areas between 2005 and 2015. This analysis is described in Regional Economies in Transition: Analyzing Trends in Advanced Industries, Manufacturing, and the Service Sector to Inform Inclusive Growth Strategies, which presents a typology that classifies the 150 largest metros into seven types based on: (1) the growth of advanced industries, such as computer systems design and chemical manufacturing; (2) the decline of traditional manufacturing jobs; and (3) the quality of jobs in service-sector industries that generally do not require a bachelor’s degree and are therefore more accessible to economically insecure workers (defined as those with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level).1 The table below presents a summary of the seven regional types.
Url: https://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/Philadelphia_in_Transition_final.pdf
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Authors: Langston, Abbie; Scoggins, Justin
Publisher: Policy Link
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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