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

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gregory, Mary (Mary B.), Salverda, Wiemer, Schettkat, Ronald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Service industries > United States.
Service industries > Europe.
Service industries workers > United States.
Service industries workers > Europe.
Services (Industrie) > États-Unis.
Services (Industrie) > Europe.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel > États-Unis.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel > Europe.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service
Service industries workers
Service industries
Europe
United States
American exceptionalism.
American way of leisure.
Barnard and Jones.
Baumöl.
Clark and Fisher.
European social model.
Gardes and Starzec.
Kramarz.
Leontief inverse matrix.
Oaxaca.
Pasinetti.
Powell.
adult-equivalent expenditures.
affirmative action.
big box.
brain drain.
capital accumulation.
capital intensification.
collective labor agreement.
comparative advantage.
consumer surplus.
cost trajectory.
deindustrialization.
demand mix.
deregulated markets.
deregulation.
durable goods.
economic dynamism.
economies of scale.
educational attainments.
expenditure patterns.
final consumption.
flexible labor markets.
goods share.
growth of productivity.
hours worked.
household saving.
immigrants.
income effect.
inequality.
institutional arrangements.
investment banking.
job creation.
labor input.
male breadwinner.
manufacturers.
marketization.
monetary union.
national prices.
offshoring.
primary industries.
public provision.
real expenditures.
Electronic books.
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Sumario: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 explanation. Drawing on the findings of a two-year research project that examined data from France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, these economists argue that Europe's 25 million "missing" jobs can be attributed almost entirely to its relative lack of service jobs. The jobs gap is actually a services gap. But, Services and Employment asks, why does the United States consume services at such a greater rate than Europe? Services and Employment is the first systematic and comprehensive international comparison on the subject. Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, Ronald Schettkat, and their fellow contributors consider the possible role played by differences in how certain services--particularly health care and education--are provided in Europe and the United States. They examine arguments that Americans consume more services because of their higher incomes and that American households outsource more domestic work. The contributors also ask whether differences between U.S. and European service sectors encapsulate fundamental trans-Atlantic differences in lifestyle choices. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Victor Fuchs, William Baumol, Giovanni Russo, Adriaan Kalwij, Stephen Machin, Andrew Glyn, Joachin Möller, John Schmitt, Michel Sollogoub, Robert Gordon, and Richard Freeman.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 251 pages : illustrations)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-240) and index.
"DEMPATEM working papers": pages [241].
ISBN:9780691225630
069122563X

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