Service-sector jobs have climbed 17 percent in the first five months of this year alone.

But to rely wholly on service-sector jobs would be a mistake.

New service-sector jobs accounted for the vast majority of those who found employment.

It means the loss of service-sector jobs in accounting, trucking, computer programming.

Many of these were service-sector jobs, as compared with higher-wage manufacturing jobs.

No, employment in burger-flipping is actually falling, and most new service-sector jobs are managerial or professional.

In addition, the party's official newspaper said that China's development model should look towards creating more service-sector jobs and increasing domestic consumption.

Some fare much better at retaining manufacturing jobs and creating service-sector jobs than others.

Most of the remainder were service-sector jobs, many of them temporary, that paid low wages and offered few or no benefits.

This occupational concentration provides few opportunities for advancement beyond relatively low-wage service-sector jobs.

But others see few signs of consumer moderation and think service-sector job growth will continue to put pressure on wages even as manufacturing shrinks.

However, not all lost service-sector jobs.

Do service-sector jobs have fewer occupational hazards?

The scarcity runs through the ranks of the labor force from the construction trades to service-sector jobs to the high-technology Internet world.

Now unemployed white-collar workers, jolted by the latest recession and its aftermath, are also walking down the path to the service-sector jobs.

When a manufacturing job moves elsewhere, the corresponding service-sector job tends to disappear and not be replaced.

Two of its goals are to expand the range of service-sector jobs and to encourage the creation of small firms.

They saw gentrification as the key to revitalizing the neighborhood, due to its proximity to downtown Albany and the growing service-sector jobs there.

The decline in the number of non-farm jobs and the increase of low-paying service-sector jobs.

But economists expressed some concern about the recent slowdown in service-sector jobs and about emerging inflationary pressures.

That is because the number of service-sector jobs has grown as the number of management positions has shrunk, he said.

In decades past, many unskilled workers moved into manufacturing or government jobs, which typically pay considerably more than low-end service-sector jobs.

College graduates are particularly sought after in an economy dominated by service-sector jobs, and the unemployment rate among the college-educated is almost zero, labor experts say.

Private, service-sector jobs and retail trade employment grew the most in June, offsetting job losses in manufacturing and government.

The idea is to prepare them for service-sector jobs, such as electrical contracting or computer repair, that will offer security as manufacturing jobs dwindle.