What are services?

Post Industrial Economies and the Growth in Services

Externalization

Productivity

Tertiary sector
Quaternary sector
Quinary sector
(and critiques of this classification system)

Consumer services
Producer services

Assignment for next time

Assignments Read pp. 271-299 and come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts: labor intensity, contingent labor, feminization of poverty, financial services, location of producer services, cross-border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence, flows of naturalized persons, outsourcing, comparative advantage, competitive advantage, technological change in services, back office, consumer services,.