Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kaiser, Ulrich
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 2002.
Series:	ZEW Economic Studies, Publication Series of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany ; 16.
Subjects:	Economics. Industrial organization (Economic theory) Labor economics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preliminary remarks
The anatomy of the German service sector
Research and research organization
New technologies, wages and employment
Financial distress of newly founded service sector firms
Summary and conclusions.