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14 <br />"(3) No foreign conflicts are assumed to occur <br />at the projection dates. <br />"(4) Continued technological progress and capital <br />accumulation will support a growth in private output per <br />manhour of 3 percent annually. [applicable to "C " series <br />projections only] <br />"(5) The new products that will appear will be <br />accommodated within the existing industrial classification <br />system, and therefore, no new industrial classifications <br />are necessary. <br />"(6) Growth in output can be achieved without <br />ecological disaster or serious deterioration, although <br />diversion of resources for pollution control will cause <br />changes in the industrial mix of output. <br />"The regional projections are based on the following <br />additional assumptions: <br />"(1) Most factors that have influenced historical <br />shifts in regional "export" industry location will continue <br />into the future with varying degrees of intensity. <br />"(2) Trends toward economic area self- sufficiency <br />in local - service industries will continue. <br />"(3) Workers will migrate to areas of economic <br />opportunities and away from slow - growth or declining <br />areas. <br />11(4) Regional earnings per worker and income per <br />capita will continue to converge toward the national <br />average. <br />"(5) Regional employment/ population ratios will <br />tend to move toward the national ratio. <br />"Regional assumptions (4) and (5) are corollaries of <br />assumption (3). They are in the nature of central <br />tendencies only. In some circumstances they may be <br />counterbalanced by other forces. <br />