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China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the … level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises … OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Agriculture is attributable …
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While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts … whether it will continue growing rapidly. In particular, whether service-sector output and employment continue to grow in … implications for output than for employment …
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In many developing countries today, the structural transformation is a shift of employment out of agriculture into the … service sector. By contrast, industrial employment is mostly stagnant. Is the service sector an engine of growth and hence … productivity growth. In an application to India, we find that productivity growth in consumer services such as retail and …
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-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …
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We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about … decrease in productivity growth. Real CDP grew almost as rapidly as in 1948-65, while employment growth accelerated due to a … sharp increase in the population of working age. The expansion of service employment contributed substantially to the growth …
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The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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This paper analyzes the role of specialized high-skilled labor in the growth of the service sector as a share of the total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of...
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