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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • 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
  • List of DEMPATEM Working Papers
  • Index

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