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• Published date: 01 June 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12024
• Date: 01 June 2016

International

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2016 2 > Volume 155/2 June

Contents

171 The manufacturing–services dynamic in economic development

David KUCERA and Leanne RONCOLATO

This article addresses the debate on services-led growth in which services are

variously portrayed as a substitute for or as a leading or lagging complement to

manufacturing. Following a survey of related empirical studies, it applies growth

decomposition methods to data for 18 countries in Asia and Latin America for

1980–2005, focusing on manufacturing and services that make intensive use of in-

formation and communication technology. By grouping the countries into four cat-

egories according to aggregate labour productivity and employment growth, the

authors seek to identify common structural characteristics of better and worse per-

forming countries. They also consider the viability of the services-led growth path

in India in particular.

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201 Technology, offshoring and the task content of occupations

in the United Kingdom

Semih AKÇOMAK, Suzanne KOK and Hugo ROJAS-ROMAGOSA

The authors analyse change in employment levels and in the task content of

occupations, both within occupations (i.e. at the intensive margin) and between

occupations (i.e. at the extensive margin) in the United Kingdom over the pe-

riod 1997–2006 using data from the national Skills Survey, which has comparable

within-occupation task data for three waves: 1997, 2001 and 2006. They nd that

within-occupation task content changed signicantly, and that the magnitude of

change was similar to that found at the extensive margin. Their econometric results