Die Autoren stellen in der vorliegenden Studie das Konzept einer Dienstleistungslücke und seiner möglichen Definitionen dar und diskutieren Quantifizierungen im internationalen Vergleich. Dabei relativieren sie stark die häufig anzutreffende Vermutung, die Beschäftigungsprobleme in...

In this study, we investigate whether population aging influences employment shares in different economic sectors. To this end, we employ dynamic panel data analysis. Our unbalanced data set comprises 54 countries and extends to a maximum time period from 1970 till 2004. Our results suggest that...

Our study represents a first attempt to single out the effects of aging on the entire structure of the economy that is approximated by employment shares in different sectors. We find that even after controlling for the effects of other relevant factors - e.g. income per capita, share of trade in...