service industries and ecomocic performance： 服务产业与经济表现.pdfVIP

SERVICE INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration Office of Policy Development March 1996 Service Industries PREFACE ESA’s analytic mission is to explain changes in the structure of U.S. industries and firms that affect the nation’s overall economic performance. The present study examines the character and causes of the economy’s increasing service orientation and considers implications of the shift to services for U.S. economic growth, employment, and competitiveness. The study was prepared by Gerald Moody, Sandra Cooke, Kan Young, and David Henry with the guidance and participation of Warren Farb and Gurmukh Gill. Jeffrey Mayer edited the final report. Everett M. Ehrlich Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Service Industries Service Industries SUMMARY Service Industries and Economic Performance addresses three questions that have troubled economists for more than a decade: whether service-oriented economies can sustain high rates of output growth; whether they can generate large numbers of good jobs; and whether they can compete effectively in global markets. Compared with a generation ago, U.S. service industries now account for a larger share of real output, and a much larger share of employment. Service inputs also comprise more of the embodied value of all the goods and services Americans produce for final use. Powerful forces now at work in the United States and elsewhere give these changes overwhelming