The fundamental assumption of labour economics that firms maximize their profits through employment has been challenged through David Graebers “Bullshit Jobs”. We compare the epistemological foundations and empirical grounding of the two concepts. After the methodological paradigms have been...

Work and labour describe activities with a redistributional and a reproductive component. In addition, the terms have gained the function of creating social status and self-esteem. This paper argues that the shifts on the labour market during the past decades question both the redistributive and...

Currently, microeconomic theory is only of very limited use to understand price levels in the service sector. After a brief review of the literature on service pricing, this paper claims that price levels in the service sector are not only dependent on qualification levels, but also on the...