source of employment growth this question becomes crucial and we examine it through a detailed comparison of the role of low …-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …

Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …

its historic competitors, France and Germany. They conclude that reforms in the area of union-management relations …