This paper provides an overview of literature on the employment shift towards services. It
follows the three dimensions of structural change: inter-industry productivity differences, the …

The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three
dimensions of structural change-final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter…

Jobs and homework, Time-use evidence Employment rates and hours worked per employee
are very different in the EU and the US. This paper relates the greater time worked in the …

Germany's more compressed wage structure is widely viewed as the main cause of the
German‐US difference in employment and unemployment, but part of the compression is due to …

Employment trends in the industrialized economies became remarkably divergent in the
1970s and 1980s. Inter-country variations in the growth rates of gross domestic product (GDP) …

Women work much more in the US than in Germany and most other EU economies. We find
that the US-German employment gap is not strongly related to cross-country differences in …

The distribution of employment among economic sectors in the industrialized economies has
changed dramatically. One popular explanation for these shifts relies on the assumption of …

This paper attempts to investigate how employers' recruitment strategies (in terms of the
recruitment method used and the applicants' characteristics) change in response to different …

In the long history of rising and persistent unemployment in Europe, almost all welfare-state
institutions—employment protection legislation, unions, wages, wage structure, …

In view of high and rising jobless rates in the industrialized countries the solution of the
unemployment problem becomes a cardinal question for politicians and economists. What factors …