Posts Tagged ‘Market’

The 2007 Report on Treadmills: World Market Segmentation by City



This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a “borderless world”, cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2000 cities in over 200 countries. It does so by reporting the estimated market size (in terms of latent demand) for each major city of the world. It then ranks these cities and reports them in terms of their size as a percent of the country where they are located, their geographic region (e.g. Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America), and the total world market. In performin… More >>

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The 2007 Report on Treadmills: World Market Segmentation by City

Staircases and Treadmills?: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy



Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have made the American marketplace increasingly competitive in recent decades, but for many workers this “new economy” has entailed heightened job insecurity, lower wages, and scarcer benefits. As the job market has grown more volatile, a variety of labor market intermediaries–organizations that help job seekers find employment–have sprung up, from private temporary agencies to government “One-Stop Career Centers.” In Staircases or Treadmills? Chris Benner, Laura Leete, and Manuel Pastor investigate what approaches are most effective in helping workers to secure jobs with decent wages and benefits, and they provide specific policy recomme… More >>

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Staircases and Treadmills?: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy