Research Catalog
The Service Economy in OECD Countries OECD/Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII)
- Title
- The Service Economy in OECD Countries [electronic resource]: OECD/Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII) / Anita Wölfl
- Author
- Wölfl, Anita.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2005.
Available Online
Details
- Description
- 82 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- Improving the performance of the services sector is important to enhance aggregate economic growth. This is primarily since the service sector has become the quantitatively most important sector in all OECD economies. The growing role of services is not only the result of a resource re-allocation towards services, as the sector with low productivity growth. It is also related to demand side factors, such as a high income elasticity of demand for some services, demographic developments, the provision of certain services as public goods, and the growing role of services as providers of intermediate inputs. The empirical evidence points to several areas where employment and productivity growth in services is held back. For example, labour-intensive production in many services industries may reduce the potential for productivity growth. Innovation is held back by obstacles that are particularly relevant for services industries. The evidence also shows that the regulatory environment for ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, 1815-1965 ; no.2005/03
- Uniform Title
- OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, no.2005/03.
- Subject
- Science and Technology
- LCCN
- 10.1787/212257000720
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Author
- Wölfl, Anita.
- Title
- The Service Economy in OECD Countries [electronic resource]: OECD/Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII) / Anita Wölfl
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2005.
- Series
- OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, 1815-1965 ; no.2005/03OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, 1815-1965 ; no.2005/03.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Science and Technology
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/212257000720 doi