declining industries

There is a tendency right now for companies in related but declining industries to declare victory.

International evidence indicates that an early exit is not confined to declining industries alone.

Traditionally, lavish subsidies for declining industries have allowed people to stay in place.

Republican leaders defend the tax provisions as ones that will help declining industries and keep American business competitive overseas.

The Congress, for example, asked for action to prop up declining industries, lower taxes and increase wages.

Some declining industries are threatened, but plenty of others are booming due to new technology.

"But the jobless figure now indicates the work force in declining industries is already being absorbed," one economist said.

This currency would dominate declining industries and regions (the British pound seems a natural candidate).

Declining Industries such as Hollywood and the major labels?

For the many who were tied by reasons of training, sentiment or simple inertia to declining industries stagnant areas.

But Japan is usually quick to rationalise - that is, eliminate - her declining industries.

Nationalization of the private sector focused on older, declining industries, most notably coal mining.

Schumpeter argued that at any moment in time there are rising industries and declining industries.

Decayed and declining industries had to be shut down, and vast capital investment directed to the new sectors.

This tactic bought time for declining industries to restructure themselves and new industries to grow stronger.

That investment is helping to revitalize formerly declining industries like autos and to build new ones like electronics.

The Subsidy Burden Long-term subsidies support declining industries such as coal and shipbuilding.

The rural areas of the West Midlands have largely been a low wage, low skill economy based on declining industries.

Recently, with declining industries and unemployment, there has been less spare money, or capital, but at the same time many new industries are needed for the workers.

And for the first time the Great Lakes states, a region with a heavy concentration of declining industries, had a per capita income below the national average.

One stopgap measure the Government settled on was to allow selected groups of Taiwan's declining industries to conduct trade and investment directly with China.

It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries, and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce.

France radically restructured many declining industries in the 1990's, and government subsidies and other aid to ailing businesses peaked in 1997.

Moreover, they frequently work in declining industries lacking effective union organisation and political representation, so that their prospects of escaping the low pay treadmill are slim indeed.

This type of unemployment is associated with labour lay-offs in declining industries, e.g. steel, textiles, coal, in some of the advanced industrial nations.