Service Economies in Europe : Opportunities for Growth.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ochel, Wolfgang
Otros Autores: Wegner, Manfred
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Routledge, 1988.
Temas:
Service industries > Europe.
Service industries-Europe.
Services (Industrie) > Europe.
Service industries
Europe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; Foreword and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Major empirical trends: an overview; A new framework and unsolved issues; Aim of the study; 2. Definitions, classifications and measurement; What are services?; Classification problems and new schemes; Measurement problems: a real issue?; 3. The role of services in the development process: an overview; Incomplete service theories; The role of services in economic growth;
  • Real growth and productivity issues;
  • Employment issues;
  • Internationalization issues
  • Locational issues4. Consumer services: determinants and interlinkages; The importance and growth of consumer services; Some important determinants for consumer service demand;
  • Income, income distribution and household size;
  • Relative prices and the self-service economy;
  • Time-constraints, increased leisure and lifestyle changes; Policy implications; 5. The 'new economy': the growing importance of service functions; The transformation of the economy;
  • From mass to flexible production;
  • The transformation of products;
  • The transformation of markets
  • The internationalization of the economy- Changing production processes; The growing importance of service functions
  • empirical evidence;
  • Cost-structure and non-material investments as indicators for service functions;
  • Occupational structure of employment;
  • Employment by work content;
  • Changing qualifications requirements; Policy implications; 6. Demand for producer services; Determinants of producer service demand;
  • Complementarity versus economies of scale;
  • Organizational structure and management procedures;
  • Attractiveness of producer services
  • The nature of the labour market- The role of information technologies;
  • Regulations;
  • Need for further differentiation; Demand for producer services
  • empirical facts;
  • Purchases of services by manufacturing and service industry;
  • The role of intermediate demand in the growth of the service sector;
  • The degree of the externalization; Externalization of tertiary functions and the performance of firms; 7. Supply of producer services; Growth and structural development of producer services;
  • General survey;
  • Financial services;
  • Business services;
  • Other business services
  • Is Europe lagging behind?Productivity growth and production factors;
  • Some empirical evidence;
  • Capital inputs and technical progress;
  • New technologies and producer services; Constraints on the development of producer services;
  • Public regulations and fiscal policy;
  • Infrastructure;
  • Manpower qualifications;
  • Financial constraints; Policy implications; 8. Summary and conclusions; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

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