Services: business demand rivals consumer demand in driving job growth.

Over 97 percent of the jobs created in the United States in roughly the past 12 years have been in the service-producing sector. In 1984, the manufacturing, retail trade, government, and service sectors employed a relatively equal number of people. By 1999, however, the number of jobs in business-...

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Publicado en:Monthly Labor Review Vol. 125; no. 4; pp. 3 - 17
Autores principales: Goodman, Bill, Steadman, Reid
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: US Department of Labor April 2002
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