The only major business he retains from his days as a corporate raider -- Genmar Holdings, the nation's second-largest leisure boat manufacturer -- is in a labor-intensive segment of the economy that has been among the slowest to invest in new technology.
But he is convinced that keeping his labor-intensive segment of the industry humming will require an ongoing commitment to imaginative, inclusive training practices that may have been missing in the past.
Although the "hollowing out" of such jobs in advanced economies may have been, to a greater or lesser extent, determined by biases in trends of technological progress, the transfer of unskilled labor-intensive segments of supply chains has been part of the explanation.
For low-income economies, one can say that it has become relatively easier -- especially for small countries -- to increase their local industrial production, since joining the market through labor-intensive segments of existing chains allows them to circumvent the limits of (a lack of) scale and sophistication in local markets.
Nevertheless, Huawei obtains an increasingly large share of its revenues from the less R&D-intensive B2C segment of smartphones.
The production segment of this GVC is mainly located in East Asia, while research-intensive segments are controlled by Western and Japanese companies.
We are particularly concerned with the determinants of international success in technology-and skill-intensive segments and industries, which underpin high and rising productivity.
Symptoms resulting from the intensive irradiation of a large segment of the gastrointestinal tract or portion of the bone marrow constitute a condition called radiation sickness, or acute radiation syndrome.
The patients included in this study are only a segment of the intensive care population.
A smaller yet significant segment of holdings engage in intensive livestock activities, mainly dairying and raising pigs, and are concentrated in the southeast, which is climatically more favourable and close to main markets.
No one wants to use a different app for each segment of any already labor-intensive search to plan a vacation.
