of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after acquisition. Our …

Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at … productivity catching-up, both at the macroeconomic level and in the manufacturing industry in particular. Yet in most NMS the … growth of labour productivity went hand in hand with declining employment, and even with considerable job losses in the …

employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is used as a measure of economic growth. Panel data of 26 European …. Business Birth Rate, Self-employment Rate, Business Investment and Labour Productivity Growth were all found to be highly …

This paper analyses the degree of competition in the euro area services sector and its effects on labour productivity …. Labour productivity growth across the euro area services industries appears to be characterised by a high degree of diversity … productivity growth in the services sector. Moreover, results tend to suggest that measures aimed at increasing services market …

Wie hat sich der Dienstleistungssektor in Deutschland in den letzten 40 Jahren entwickelt? Welchen Stellenwert hat er … Dienstleistungssektor in Deutschland, wie auch in der Mehrzahl der anderen OECD-Länder, bei Erwerbstätigkeit und Wertschöpfung von erheblich …

, Arbeitsbedingungen und Arbeitsorganisation thematisiert. Der Dienstleistungssektor rückte in der Diskussion in den Hintergrund. Ein Grund … dafür mag auch sein, dass der Dienstleistungssektor in sich sehr heterogen ist. Dienstleistungen werden in so …

especially by weak future prospects for the growth of productivity. The anticipated decline in the labour force also somewhat …