Services and Employment : : Explaining the U.S.-European Gap /

Services and Employment : : Explaining the U.S.-European Gap / / ed. by Mary Gregory, Ronald Schettkat, Weimer Salverda.

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different ex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Baumol, William J.,
Blow, Laura,
Deelen, Marijke van,
Freeman, Richard B.,
Fuchs, Victor R.,
Gardes, Frangois,
Glyn, Andrew,
Gordon, Robert J.,
Gregory, Mary,
Kalwij, Adriaan S.,
Luengo-Prado, Maria-Jose,
Machin, Stephen,
Moller, Joachim,
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier,
Russo, Giovanni,
Salverda, Wiemer,
Schettkat, Ronald,
Schmitt, John,
Sollogoub, Michel,
Starzec, Christophe,
HerausgeberIn:
Gregory, Mary,
Salverda, Weimer,
Schettkat, Ronald,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.) :; 32 line illus. 50 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 The U.S.-European Gap in Service Employment and Demand: The Research Agenda
  • CHAPTER 2 Reflections on the Rise of Service Sector Employment
  • CHAPTER 3 On Mechanisms Underlying the Growing Share of Service Employment in the Industrialized Economies
  • CHAPTER 4 Do Demand Differences Cause the U.S.-European Employment Gap?
  • CHAPTER 5 Comparative Service Consumption in Six Countries
  • CHAPTER 6 Employment Differences in Distribution: Wages, Productivity, and Demand
  • CHAPTER 7 Why Was Europe Left at the Station When America's Productivity Locomotive Departed?
  • CHAPTER 8 Can Marketization of Household Production Explain the Jobs Gap Puzzle?
  • CHAPTER 9 Service Included? Services and the U.S.-European Employment Gap
  • Bibliography
  • DEMPATEM Working Papers
  • Index

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