| Sumario: | The writer reviews employment trends in high technology. He updates the lists of high-tech industries used in previous research and expands the concept of high-tech employment to include all employment in industries defined as high technology, employment in service providers and suppliers to high-tech industries, and employment of scientists, engineers, and technicians who create and apply new technologies. He also identifies the number of workers employed in high-tech activities in 1996 and discusses high-tech employment in 1986, its projections for 2006, and its growth over the 1986–96 and 1996–06 periods.
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