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Book SynopsisWhy is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? Drawing on the findings of a project that examined data from France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States, this work argues that Europe's 25 million "missing" jobs can be attributed almost entirely to its relative lack of service jobs.
Trade Review"The significance of this volume for public policy is that the authors' hypotheses offer a rebuttal to the more familiar explanations criticizing European labor laws and social service policies as the rationale for substantial changes in employment in the past few years."--Choice "[I]t becomes apparent from this book, which we would highly recommend reading, that the problem of contemporary developed economies is less their degree of de-industrialisation than their gap in servicisation."--Faiz Gallouj, Journal of Evolutionary Economics "Services and Employment is an impressive and stimulating book that takes an unconventional supply-side oriented look at the employment gap between the USA and Europe and offers theoretical as well as empirical insights."--Engelbert Stockhammer, Intervention
Table of ContentsPreface vii Contributors ix Introduction by Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Ronald Schettkat 1 Chapter 1: The U.S.-European Gap in Service Employment and Demand: The Research Agenda by Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat 15 Chapter 2: Reflections on the Rise of Service Sector Employment by Victor R. Fuchs 42 Chapter 3: On Mechanisms Underlying the Growing Share of Service Employment in the Industrialized Economies by William J. Baumol 63 Chapter 4: Do Demand Differences Cause the U.S.-European Employment Gap? by Mary Gregory and Giovanni Russo 81 Chapter 5: Comparative Service Consumption in Six Countries by Adriaan S. Kalwij and Stephen Machin with Laura Blow, Marijke van Deelen, Francois Gardes, Maria-Jose Luengo-Prado, Javier Ruiz-Castillo, John Schmitt, and Christophe Starzec 109 Chapter 6: Employment Differences in Distribution: Wages, Productivity, and Demand by Andrew Glyn, Joachim Moller, Wiemer Salverda, John Schmitt, and Michel Sollogoub 141 Chapter 7: Why Was Europe Left at the Station When America's Productivity Locomotive Departed? by Robert J. Gordon 176 Chapter 8: Can Marketization of Household Production Explain the Jobs Gap Puzzle? by Richard B. Freeman 198 Chapter 9: Service Included? Services and the U.S.-European Employment Gap by Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Ronald Schettkat 217 Bibliography 231 List of DEMPATEM Working Papers 241 Index 243
