Antonello D’Agostino; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an … gap in the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is … key to achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may …