Globalization and Employment - In the course of globalization imports play a more and more important role as inputs for national production. In the wake of this development, domestic products are substituted by imported goods and jobs are moved abroad. However, this enables domestic companies to...

As part of the outsourcing, industrial enterprises receive services in the production of their products which they used to provide on their own. As a result of the wage differentials between industry and service sector there is a shift in the burden labour costs have on industrial products. The...

Potential output measures a country's attainable aggregate living standard and is thus one of the most important categories of economics. It is also a key indicator for monetary and fiscal policy. Despite its prominence, however, potential output is a difficult concept to pinpoint theoretically...

Potential output measures a country's attainable aggregate living standard and is thus one of the most important categories of economics. It is also a key indicator for monetary and fiscal policy. Despite its prominence, however, potential output is a difficult concept to pinpoint theoretically...

In der Studie wird die Zusammensetzung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Arbeitskosten von Industriegütern nach Herkunftsbereichen und Arbeitszeitgruppen analysiert. Unter Nutzung der Input-Output-Methode wird der Einfluss der unterschiedlich hoch bezahlten Arbeit im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe und dem...