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Economic Opportunity in a Volatile Economy
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Why Silicon Valley and Milwaukee?Our focus on two regional labor markets contributes a particularly useful perspective to the growing body of research and knowledge on intermediary activity. It allows us to gain a comprehensive picture of a wide range of intermediary activity, not simply the activity of a single type of organization. It also allows us to gain an appreciation of the level of importance of intermediaries as a whole to the regional labor markets. Furthermore, by comparing intermediary use in the two regions, it allows us to explore the ways in which intermediary activity is shaped by the particular economic characteristics of a prototypical "new economy" region and a prototypical old, industrial manufacturing-based region. |