30 Apr 2023 18:14:39 Apple has given as much attention to designing and optimizing its supply chain as to the design of the phone itself. At the same time that American communities are desegregating racially, they are becoming more segregated in terms of schooling and earnings. "Berkeley Planning Journal, "Wow. The Inequality of Mobility and Cost of Living 154 . The new geography of jobs . Peak Detroit was 1950 & "in the fall of 1978, manufacturing employment reached its peak, with almost 20 million Americans working in factories". If the book falls short, it is in addressing how best to ensure the gains from an innovative economy are broadly shared. Workers in cities at the top of the list make about two to three times more than identical workers in cities at the bottom, and the gap keeps growing. "The Wall Street Journal, "Moretti has written a clear and insightful account of the economic forces that are shaping America and its regions, and he rightly celebrates human capital and innovation as the fundamental sources of economic development. Search the history of over 806 billion "MIT Sloan Management Review, "It is a great and disturbing book about the sweeping changes that are going on in American communities. As we will discover, the growing economic divide between American communities is not an accident but the inevitable result of deep-seated economic forces. These trends are reshaping the very fabric of our society. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. . Good jobs are scarce. You might think that the rise of innovation is pretty exciting if you work for, say, Google or a biotech company but that it doesnt matter all that much if youre a teacher or a doctor or a police officer. By contrast, few high-paying jobs have been created in Visalia, and the percentage of local workers with a college degree has barely changed in thirty yearsone of the worst performances in the country. Copyright 2001-2023 OCLC. An individual standard of living is increasingly determined by where she lives, not just what she does. After all, the majority of Americans will never work for a high-tech startup. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. . In this book, the author provides a fresh perspective on the tectonic shifts that are reshaping America's labor market, from globalization and income inequality to immigration and technological progress, and how these shifts are affecting our communities. Cities have become great filters, he explains, concentrating skilled workers in a handful of highly productive locations. Dealing with this split--supporting growth in the hubs while arresting the decline elsewhere--will be the challenge of the century, and "The New Geography of Jobs" lights the way. How will unemployment affect the next election? If there is a poster child of globalization, it is the iPhone.