This article attempts to clarify certain misunderstandings about productive/unproductive labour (PUPL) concerning the "service economy." The concept of service labour is embedded in the discussion of PUPL. After examining Smith's and Marx's definitions of "service" and "service labour," we...

The main purpose of this article is to analyze the capacity of Brazilian economy sectors to transfer their productivity gains over the productive chain from 2000 to 2009. Therefore, it has been used structural decomposition technique and a methodology that deals with the variation of labor...

Die Sharing Economy und Online-Plattformen nehmen zu und verändern unser tägliches Leben. Immer mehr Produkte und Dienstleistungen sind über Peer-to-Peer-Plattformen (P2P) online buchbar. Es ist daher unerlässlich zu verstehen, wie technologiegestützte, vertrauensbildende Maßnahmen (VBM)...

In this paper we present a critical analysis of industrial location policy of the state of Bahia, in the period covered in between 1960s and 2000s, from the perspective of spatial economy. The paper reviews the formulation of the theory of location, through the contributions of its principal...

Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht in Verbindung von soziologischer, politik- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Perspektive das amerikanische Beschäftigungswachstum um die Jahrtausendwende zu analysieren. Die Arbeit skizziert in einem ersten Anlauf das „amerikanische Beschäftigungswunder“,...

The present paper attempts to examine three types of mechanisms, including specialized division of labor, innovation, and demand-induced mechanisms that are crucial in the development of the service industry in the modern economy. The underdevelopment of transacted-through-market services in...

It is believed that jobs in the service sector generally require more brain-related rather than labor-related skills compared to those in the industrial sector, thus females should have a comparative advantage in the service sector. Using the data from the 2017 China Household Finance Survey, we...

Vor dem Beginn der Fußball Europameisterschaft (EM 2008) haben nur etwa ein Fünftel der befragten Erwachsenen geglaubt, dass das Auswahlteam des Deutschen Fußball Bundes (DFB) die Europameisterschaft gewinnen wird. Nach dem Auftaktsieg der DFB-Auswahl ist dieser Wert sofort gestiegen. Man...

Productivity has become, since the nineties, as one key factor in analyzing the international competitiveness. On other side, the measurement and analysis of the productivity within the service sector has been widely debated in the recent years. Following this motivation, this paper analyzes the...