We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries … in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD countries. It finds that GDP per capita, the size of the government … sector and the extent of urbanization are positively associated with the service employment share. However, the evidence …

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …