Services and employment models: Europe-USA-Japan

Is it any longer necessary to point out that the service sector accounts for the highest share of economic activity in todays developed economies, irrespective of the indicators used to demonstrate its importance? This dominant position is reflected not only in its quantitative importance but also in the prominence services are accorded in some economic analyses, particularly those by heterodox economists, or in international comparisons.However, over and above the homogenisation implicit in the term service sector, there is just as great a diversity of tertiary structures and dynamics as there are varieties of capitalism in contemporary economies...

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Year of publication:	2005-02-01
Authors:	Jany-Catrice, Florence ; Ribault, Thierry
Institutions:	Institut Arbeit und Technik <Gelsenkirchen>
Subject:	Benchmarking \| Arbeit \| Labor \| Methodologie

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Services and employment models: Europe-USA-Japan
Introduction
Domination of services unarguable
Manufacturing no longer the only legitimate activity
The need for change in socio-economic analyses
Institutions in all their diversity increasingly taken into account.
Plan
I. International comparisons of employment in services: the methodologies
1.1. Benchmarking
1.2. Societal analysis
1.3 Ideal types
1.4 Comparative studies that focus on the dynamic of change
II. The sectoral approaches
2.1. The NESY project
2.2. An example of societal analysis applied to employment in services
2.3. Another example of a sectoral approach: identifying the Daieist wage-labour nexus in Japan
III. Sectoral approaches to national models of service employment
3.1. Manuel Castells and Yuko Aoyama: the multiple pathways leading to the informational society
3.2 An initial analysis of the structure of services: from Singelmann to Bosch
3.3. Gadreys service worlds
IV. Towards a dynamic approach to employment models
4.1. Institutional innovation
4.2 Individual life cycles
4.3. Time arrangements
Conclusion
A varieties of service economies approach

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