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Title The political economy of the service transition / edited by Anne Wren
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages)
Contents Introduction : The political economy of post-industrial societies / Anne Wren -- A political-institutional model of real exchange rates, competitiveness, and the division of labor / Torben Iversen and David Soskice -- The trilemma revisited : institutions, inequality, and employment creation in an era of ICT-intensive service expansion / Anne Wren, Máté Fodor, and Sotiria Theodoropoulou -- The service transition and women's employment / Moira Nelson and John D. Stephens -- Pathways of change in CMEs : training regimes in Germany and the Netherlands / Karen M. Anderson and Anke Hassel -- A tale of two trilemmas : varieties of higher education and the service economy / Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich -- De-industrialization and the expansion of the welfare state : a reassessment / Philip Manow, Kees van Kersbergen, and Gijs Schumacher -- Service expansion, international exposure, and political preferences / Anne Wren and Philipp Rehm -- The political economy of working time and redistribution / Lucy Barnes -- The political economy of gender in service sector economies / Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth
Summary Over the past four decades the world's most developed economies have experienced rapid de-industrialization. More than three-quarters of employment is now in the service industry. This book provides a systematic examination of the political economy of this transition and explores its profound implications for the economy, politics, and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Deindustrialization -- OECD countries
Service industries -- OECD countries
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Secteur tertiaire.
Employés du secteur tertiaire.
Economie postindustrielle.
Conditions économiques.
Aspects socio-économiques.
Politique de l'emploi.
Conditions de travail.
Indicateurs économiques.
Deindustrialization
Economic history
Service industries
Dienstleistungssektor
Dienstleistungsgesellschaft
Strukturwandel
SUBJECT OECD countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Subject OECD countries
Form Electronic book
Author Wren, Anne.
ISBN 9780191631573
0191631574
9780191745133
0191745138