Services and employment : explaining the U.S.-European gap

Preface 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