Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector
Published on 23. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 164 pages
978-3-7908-1481-1 (ISBN)
Description
Empirical and theoretical evidence on the German service sector is inversely related to its growing overall importance for the entire economy. This monograph offers a comprehensive theory-based econometric treatment of three important and severely understudied issues related to services: innovative activity, the effects of innovation on the demand for labour, and the performance of newly founded firms. In addition, the book contains detailed descriptive statistics on innovative activity, skill mix as well as on growth and current economic importance. It offers researchers, policy makers, and practitioners a unique opportunity to gain knowledge on the new German service economy.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen
X, 164 p. 7 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7908-1481-1 (9783790814811)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-57453-5
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
12/2012
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€53.49
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Content
1 Preliminary remarks.- 2 The anatomy of the German service sector.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Overall economic importance and economic growth.- 2.3 Research and research organization.- 2.4 Employment structures.- 2.5 Firm performance.- 2.6 Conclusions.- 3 Research and research organization.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Previous game-theoretical approaches.- 3.3 R&D with endogenous absorptive capacity.- 3.4 Data.- 3.5 Measuring knowledge spillovers.- 3.6 Testing the theoretical model.- 3.7 Conclusions.- 3.8 Appendices.- 4 New technologies, wages and employment.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 New technologies and the demand for heterogeneous labor.- 4.3 Efficient bargaining and the skill-structure of wages and em-ployment.- 4.4 Conclusions.- 4.5 Appendices.- 5 Financial distress of newly founded service sector firms.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Previous studies on firm default.- 5.3 Data.- 5.4 A dynamic model of financial distress.- 5.5 Estimation results.- 5.6 Conclusions.- 5.7 Appendices.- 6 Summary and conclusions.- References.