Conference report on a meeting to examine factors affecting production and productivity in the service sector in Canada and the USA - includes papers and records of discussions on the use of statistical method in measuring the contribution ...

However, in real terms, we are consuming slightly less services. That is, the increase in the service sector is caused by low productivity relative to manufacturing. The implication of Baumol's cost disease is the following.

Monograph comprising an economic analysis of trends in the service sector in the USA, with particular reference to employment implications - covers consumer demand and consumer expenditure, productivity, employment creation (according to ...

Here, Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth analyze services sector productivity, demonstrating that fundamental changes have taken place in this sector of the U.S. economy.

This raises critical questions about the ability of developing economies to close productivity gaps with advanced economies and to create good jobs for more people. At Your Service?

"Service Industry Growth" addresses these paradoxes and provides a summary of the most complete and far-reaching research project ever conducted on the economics of the service sector.