Michael Berkowitz wrote:
> Ken Hirsch writes
>> The story indicates that 54,000 business process outsourcing jobs
>> will be created in India over the next six months.  By comparison,
>> over the last twenty years, an average of 1,040,000 net new jobs
>> were created in America every six months.
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> Sure but how many of the 1,040,000 new jobs ask you "You want fries
> with that?"

According to table 588 of the Statistical Abstract of the United
States 2002, which is available at
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/02statab/labor.pdf
the number of persons employed in "Food preparation and service
occupations" increased by about 1.4 millon from 1983 to 2001.  That's
about 4% of all net new jobs.

That's actually slower than the economy as a whole, so the share of
jobs in that category fell from 4.8% in 1983 to 4.6% in 2001.

Here are the numbers for the broadest categories, plus food service

          Percent of all jobs
1983      2001     Category
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23.4%     31.0%     Managerial and professional specialty
31.0      28.9      Technical, sales and administrative support
13.7      13.6      Service Occupations
 4.8       4.6            Food service
12.2      11.0      Precision production, craft, and repair
16.0      13.1      Operators, fabricators, and laborers
 3.7       2.4      Farming, forestry, and fishing


  Change in each category as % of net new jobs
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22.7%     Technical, sales and administrative support
13.1      Service Occupations
 4.0            Food service
 7.3      Precision production, craft, and repair
 4.7      Operators, fabricators, and laborers
-1.3      Farming, forestry, and fishing

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