Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising share of the service sectors in the economy?

These essays discuss the service sector and causes, problems and prospects of replacing the manufacturing business.

The services industries—which include jobs ranging from flipping hamburgers to providing investment advice—can no longer be characterized, as they have in t

Contains: labor productivity indexes (historical data showing the changes in output per employee hour and related series are provided for 177 industries); multi