sector. In light of the Republic of Korea's high income and development level, the poor performance of modern services is of …There is a widespread perception that the Republic of Korea's service sector lags behind its dynamic world …-class manufacturing sector. We empirically analyze the past performance of the Republic of Korea's service sector in order to assess its …

investigate survival of start-up firms, turnover, input, value added, and employment effects. Most drop-outs occur in the early … services from incumbents, while 34 Cent remain in the firm. Sectoral differences can also be observed. The manufacturing …

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …

activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …

services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … modern sector and that modern services are only a viable destination for the highly skilled few. To the extent that the … expansion of both modern manufacturing and modern services is constrained by the availability of skilled labour, this just …

separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This …

Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital … deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor … productivity grew at a healthy pace in much of the region. Overall our analysis provides substantial cause for optimism about the … currently struggling, such as the Republic of Korea and Thailand, will find it more challenging to develop the sector. …