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Services and employment : explaining the U.S.-European gap

Title
Services and employment : explaining the U.S.-European gap / edited by Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Ronald Schettkat.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007], ©2007.
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  • Gregory, Mary (Mary B.)
  • Salverda, Wiemer.
  • Schettkat, Ronald.
Description
x, 251 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Service industries > United States
  • Service industries > Europe
  • Service industries workers > United States
  • Service industries workers > Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-240) and index.
  • "DEMPATEM working papers": p. [241].
Contents
Ch. 1. The U.S.-European gap in service employment and demand : the research agenda / Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat -- Ch. 2. Reflections of the rise of service sector employment / Victor R. Fucbs -- Ch. 3. On mechanisms underlying the growing share of service employment in the industrialized economies / William J. Baumol -- Ch. 4. Do demand differences cause the U.S.-European employment gap? / Mary Gregory and Giovauni Russo -- Ch. 5. Comparative service consumption in six countries / Adridan S. Kalwij, Stephen Machin, Laura Blore, Marijke van Deelen, Francois Gardes, Maria-Jose Latengo-Prado, Javier Ruiz-Castillo, John Schmitt and Christopher Starzec -- Ch. 6. Employment differences in distribution : wages, productivity, and demand / Andrew Glyn, Joachim Moller, Wiemer Salverda, John Schmitt and Michael Sollogoub -- Ch. 7. Why was Europe left at the station when America's productivity locomotive departed? / Robert J. Gordon -- Ch. 8. Can marketization of household production explain the jobs gap puzzle? / Richard B. Freeman -- Ch. 9. Service included? : services and the U.S.-European employment gap / Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat -- List of DEMPATEM working papers.
ISBN
  • 9780691130866 (casebound : alk. paper)
  • 0691130868 (casebound : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006037145
OCLC
  • OCM76416501
  • 76416501
  • SCSB-5925044
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