the strong weight of services, and especially traditional stagnant personal services, which have fewer opportunities for … enhancing its productivity. The so-called modern progressive services, such as financial and business services and … information technologies and are increasingly tradable across borders. However, these services sub-sectors demand higher levels of …

, despite the pattern of the growth of the share of services being similar to that observed in other developed countries, since … the expense of industry in the period 1995-2009. In 2009, the share of nontradables (defined as the sum of services plus … the period 1988-1993. Finally, we show that construction and services facing a strong Government demand were the main …

productivity show that productivity gains in services and industry feedback into productivity growth in agriculture, although the … organizational capabilities to benefit from industry and services expansion. Our results indicate that this does not seem to have …

Gibrat’s law can be rejected for the services sector as it has been for manufacturing. The aim of this paper is also to …-system and pooled OLS estimators our findings suggest that Gibrat’s law is rejected for services firms. In addition, the results …

This paper assesses the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and …

representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …

exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally. …