Title: Services and employment : explaining the U.S.-European gap /
Authors: Gregory, Mary; Salverda, Wiemer.; Schettkat, Ronald.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Service industries United States; Service industries Europe.; Service industries workers United States.; Service industries workers Europe.
Contents: The U.S.-European gap in service employment and demand : the research agenda / Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat -- Reflections on the rise of service sector employment / Victor R. Fuchs -- On mechanisms underlying the growing share of service employment in the industrialized economies / William J. Baumol -- Do demand differences cause the U.S.-European employment gap? / Mary Gregory and Giovanni Russo -- Comparative service consumption in six countries / Adriaan S. Kalwij and Stephen Machin with Laura Blow, Marijke van Deelen, François Gardes, Maria-José Luengo-Prado, Javier Ruiz-Castillo, John Schmitt, and Chrisophe Starzec -- Employment differences in distribution : wages, productivity, and demand / Andrew Glyn, Joachim, Möller, Wiemer Salverda, John Schmitt, and Michel Sollogoub / Why was Europe left at the station when America's productivity locomotive departed? / Robert J. Gordon -- Can marketization of household production explain the jobs gap puzzle? / Richard B. Freeman -- Service included? : services and the U.S.-European employment gap / Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Ronald Schettkat.