Services and employment
Subtitle: explaining the U.S.-European gap
By: edited by Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Ronald Schettkat
Contributors: Gregory, Mary; Salverda, Wiemer; Schettkat, Ronald
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780691130866
Subjects: Service industries -- United States; Service industries -- Europe; Service industries workers -- United States; Service industries workers -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-240) and index

"DEMPATEM working papers": p. [241]
Table of contents: title: The U.S.-European gap in service employment and demand : the research agenda / Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat; title: Reflections on the rise of service sector employment / Victor R. Fuchs; title: On mechanisms underlying the growing share of service employment in the industrialized economies / William J. Baumol; title: Do demand differences cause the U.S.-European employment gap? / Mary Gregory and Giovanni Russo; title: 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; title: 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; title: Can marketization of household production explain the jobs gap puzzle? / Richard B. Freeman; title: Service included? : services and the U.S.-European employment gap / Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Ronald Schettkat