Beyond conventional service economics: utility services, service-product chains, and job services

Abstract: "This essay intends to explore three innovative ways to foster job creation in services: First, the switch from product markets to utility markets would induce more and new types of user services. Such a switch would not only be more employment friendly but also foster a sustainable economic development compatible with ecological principles. The reorientation from products to utilities provides strong arguments for an emphasis on the framework conditions of services, for instance for lowering VAT in favour of labour intensive services, for forward regulation through (usually service enhancing) high quality standards, for deregulating market entry barriers, and for subsidising networks instead of individual products or services. Second, the thesis of cost disease has to be reconsidered in view of productivity enhancing possibilities by new technologies, and in view of innovative possibilities in managing specific income risks related to modern services. Service-product chains are th

Alternative title
Jenseits der konventionellen Dienstleistungswirtschaft: Nutzungsmärkte, Dienstleistungs-Produkt-Ketten, Beschäftigungsdienstleistungen
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 20 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion

Bibliographic citation
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung, Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung ; Bd. 00-203

Keyword
Dienstleistungssektor
Beschäftigungswirkung
Unternehmensbezogene Dienstleistung
Produktivität
Sozialreform
Künstler
Künstlerin
Deutschland

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2000
Creator
Contributor
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-115731
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • 2000

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