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Contents Preface Introduction MARY GREGORY, WIEMER SALVERDA AND RONALD SCHETTKAT 1. The US-Europe Gap in Service Employment and Demand: The Research Agenda WIEMER SALVERDA AND RONALD SCHETTKAT 2. Reflections on the Rise of Service-Sector Employment VICTOR FUCHS 3. On Mechanisms Underlying the Growing Share of Service Employment in the Industrialised Economies WILLIAM BAUMOL 4. Do Demand Differences Cause the US-Europe Employment Gap? MARY GREGORY AND GIOVANNI RUSSO 5. Comparative Service Consumption in Six Countries ADRIAAN KALWIJ AND STEPHEN MACHIN with Laura Blow, Marijke van Deelen, Francois Gardes, Maria-Jose Luengo- Prado, Javier Ruiz-Castillo, John Schmitt and Christophe Starzec 6. Employment Differences in Consumer Services: Low Wages, Productivity and Demand and the Distribution Sector ANDREW GLYN, JOACHIM MOELLER, WIEMER SALVERDA, JOHN SCHMITT AND MICHEL SOLLOGOUB 7. Why was Europe Left at the Station when America's Productivity Locomotive Departed? ROBERT GORDON 8. Can Marketization of Household Production Explain the Employment Puzzle? RICHARD FREEMAN 9. Services Included? Services and the US-Europe Employment Gap MARY GREGORY, WIEMER SALVERDA AND RONALD SCHETTKAT
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Service industries -- United States.
Service industries -- Europe.
Service industries workers -- United States.
Service industries workers -- Europe.