Service Industries, Employment and Regional Development in Britain: A Review of Recent Trends and Issues
Service Industries, Employment and Regional Development in Britain: A Review of Recent Trends and Issues
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英国的服务业、就业和区域发展：近期趋势和问题回顾
DOI：
10.2307/622007
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发表时间：
1986
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
P. Damesick
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作者：
P. Damesick
在英国，尽管服务业雇用了近三分之二的劳动力，但在研究地区发展时，服务业相对来说被忽视了。该论文考虑了向服务业就业转变的原因：与商品相比，消费者服务需求的收入弹性更高;中间服务需求的增长;以及服务业劳动生产率增长相对缓慢。自1971年以来，服务业就业增长的行业群体和地区的英国的模式进行检查。1970年代末和1980年代初，私营服务业就业的区域趋势与北方和西部地区相反。然而，传统上将服务业视为纯粹的依赖部门的做法受到质疑。特别是，生产者服务业在区域增长中的作用进行了探讨，生产者服务禀赋的不平等是区域差异的一个重要原因。最后，本文提出了进一步研究的方向。
Service industries have been relatively neglected in studies of regional development in Britain despite the fact that they now employ almost two-thirds of the work-force. The paper considers the reasons for the well-established shift towards service employment: higher income-elasticity of demand for consumer services compared with goods; the growth of intermediate demand for services; and relatively slow labour productivity growth in services. The pattern of service employment growth by industry groups and in the regions of Britain since 1971 is examined. Regional trends in private service employment are seen to have moved against northern and western regions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, the conventional treatment of services as a purely dependent sector is questioned. In particular, the role of producer services in regional growth is explored, with the suggestion that inequalities in producer service endowments are an important causal factor in regional disparities. The paper concludes with some suggestions on directions for further research.