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Downward nominal wage rigidity in services: direct evidence from a firm survey
Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - 2009
The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
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Werttreiber im Dienstleistungsprozess: Eine Analyse anhand der Wertkette nach Porter
Dreyer, Dirk; Oehler, Andreas - 2002
Dienstleistung als Vorstufe einer umfassenden Begriffsbildung betrachtet. Unter Intellektuellem Kapital wird sowohl das traditionelle …
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Services are Different: Job Characteristics, Working Conditions and Pay Levels in OECD Countries
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 55-57
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Arbeitskosteneffekte des Vorleistungsbezugs der Industrie an Dienstleistungen in Deutschland im Vergleich mit Frankreich und den Niederlanden: Eine Untersuchung mit der Input-Outpu...
Ludwig, Udo; Brautzsch, Hans-Ulrich; Exß, Franziska - 2010
selbst erstellt haben. Infolge der Lohnunterschiede zwischen Industrie und Dienstleistungssektor ändert sich damit aus … Deutschland und im Vergleich mit Frankreich und den Niederlanden analysiert. Im Ergebnis zeigt die Erweiterung der … - gesamtwirtschaftlich betrachtet - geringere Belastung der Industriegüter mit Lohnkosten in Deutschland, Frankreich und den Niederlanden an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464411
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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards
Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
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Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297656
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Job opportunities for whom? Labour market dynamics and service sector employment growth in Germany and Britain
Fagan, Colette; O'Reilly, Jacqueline; Halpin, Brendan - 2005
This report examines structural change in employment and the development of servicesector jobs in Germany and Britain … between 1993 and 2002. During this period the British labour market was buoyant, while the employment situation in Germany can …-wage service jobs, especially in a country such as Germany which has traditionally enjoyed a high-skill, high-wage equilibrium. The …
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Sind mittelständische Betriebe der Jobmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft?
Wagner, Joachim; Koller, Lena; Schnabel, Claus - 2007
In public discussion in Germany it is often argued that jobs are mainly created in small and medium-sized firms (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265165
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Whatever works: Dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010
non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …
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