No other area of the German economy has developed so emphatically in the past ten years as that of business-related services. Regardless their growing importance, business-related services still play only a minor role in official statistics. Above all, official statistics do not provide...

Trotz seiner in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegenen gesamtwirtschaftlichen Bedeutung ist über das Verhalten des Wirtschaftszweiges unternehmensnahe Dienstleistung im Konjunkturzyklus bislang wenig bekannt. Es erscheint wegen der starken Outsourcingaktivitäten des verarbeitenden...

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production factors when firms from the service sector are faced...