TY - BOOK AU - Baumol,William J. AU - Blow,Laura AU - Deelen,Marijke van AU - Freeman,Richard B. AU - Fuchs,Victor R. AU - Gardes,Frangois AU - Glyn,Andrew AU - Gordon,Robert J. AU - Gregory,Mary AU - Kalwij,Adriaan S. AU - Luengo-Prado,Maria-Jose AU - Machin,Stephen AU - Moller,Joachim AU - Ruiz-Castillo,Javier AU - Russo,Giovanni AU - Salverda,Weimer AU - Salverda,Wiemer AU - Schettkat,Ronald AU - Schmitt,John AU - Sollogoub,Michel AU - Starzec,Christophe TI - Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European Gap SN - 9780691225630 AV - HD9981.5 U1 - 331.793094 PY - 2022///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Service industries workers KW - Europe KW - United States KW - Service industries KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service KW - bisacsh KW - American exceptionalism KW - American way of leisure KW - Barnard and Jones KW - Baumöl KW - Clark and Fisher KW - European social model KW - Gardes and Starzec KW - Kramarz KW - Leontief inverse matrix KW - Oaxaca KW - Pasinetti KW - Powell KW - adult-equivalent expenditures KW - affirmative action KW - big box KW - brain drain KW - capital accumulation KW - capital intensification KW - collective labor agreement KW - comparative advantage KW - consumer surplus KW - cost trajectory KW - deindustrialization KW - demand mix KW - deregulated markets KW - deregulation KW - durable goods KW - economic dynamism KW - economies of scale KW - educational attainments KW - expenditure patterns KW - final consumption KW - flexible labor markets KW - goods share KW - growth of productivity KW - hours worked KW - household saving KW - immigrants KW - income effect KW - inequality KW - institutional arrangements KW - investment banking KW - job creation KW - labor input KW - male breadwinner KW - manufacturers KW - marketization KW - monetary union KW - national prices KW - offshoring KW - primary industries KW - public provision KW - real expenditures N1 - Frontmatter --; 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 --; DEMPATEM Working Papers --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691225630?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691225630 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691225630/original ER -