Abstract
Reviews previous findings on employment and occupational changes in the G-7 countries between 1920 and 1990, examines developments that characterized these economies during the 1990s, focusing on advances in information technologies, and investigates changes in employment and occupational structures to 2000. Includes a comparison of the incidence of information-processing jobs in the USA and Japan. Supports the view that there needs to be a shift of analytical focus from services to information processing as the dominant activity in advanced economies.