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Promotes Diversity <br />Definition <br />As defined here, an economy that promotes diversity: <br />includes a variety of industry and firm types and sizes, skill levels required for jobs, <br />wages, types of employment, and ownership models. <br />The definition and metrics in Table 3 are drawn from: <br />0 1994 OC sustainability policy <br />• Academic literature on diverse economies <br />• Sustainable Santa Monica (see Table 1) <br />• University of Wisconsin- Cooperative Extension <br />Key Attributes <br />Initially, the author interpreted the Commissioners' meaning of "diverse economy' as similar to <br />what Wagner and Deller describe, in citing others, as "a great number of different types of industries," <br />"the extent to which the economic activity of a region is distributed among a number of categories," and <br />"in terms of balanced employment across industry classes" (Wagner & Deller, 1993). A diverse economy <br />was interpreted as one that includes a range of worker skill sets, business and organization types, and <br />industry base. As Wagner and Deller mention, there is an implicit assumption that a larger economy is a <br />better economy (Wagner & Deller, 1993). The author of this document enhanced that definition to <br />include industry size, and spectrum of skills, wages, private and public businesses, ownerships models, <br />