Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European GapMary Gregory, Weimer Salverda, Ronald Schettkat 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? |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER | 7 |
CHAPTER 2 | 42 |
CHAPTER 3 | 49 |
On Mechanisms Underlying the Growing Share of Service Employment | 63 |
CHAPTER 4 | 81 |
CHAPTER 5 | 109 |
CHAPTER 6 | 141 |
Service Included? Services and the U S European Employment Gap | 217 |
Bibliography | 231 |
List of DEMPATEM Working Papers | 241 |