Fagan, Colette, Halpin, Brendan and O'Reilly, Jacqueline (2005) Service sector employment in Germany and the UK. Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Schmollers Jahrbuch, 125 (1). pp. 97-107. ISSN 1439-121X

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Abstract

Given the poor jobs record in Germany since the mid 1990s, much political interest has been shown in the potential for job creation in the service sector. However, service sector employment raises a number of controversial issues associated with the encouragement of low-skill, low-wage jobs in a country traditionally classified as having a high-skill, high-wage equilibrium. Thus, a cross-national comparison with a country like the UK appears to be of interest, where labor market structures are quite different in terms of labour market regulation and levels of female employment (Hall and Soskice 2001; O'Reilly and Bothfeld 2002). ur analysis covers the different patterns of growth in services tracking transition patterns between occupations and employment and non-employment to see how precarious service employment is in each of the countries, and for whom. In conclusion, the empirical analysis is set within national debates in economics, concerning the role of macro-economic policy impacts on the domestic demand for services. The findings are also located in relation to the sociological literature on self-serving households and the impact of strong male breadwinner households, which dampen demand for service jobs. This project is work in progress.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Service sector, Employment, Comparison
Schools and Departments:	School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Sociology School of Business, Management and Economics > Business and Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic history and conditions H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Chris Keene
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2008
Last Modified:	13 Jun 2017 14:03
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1417
Google Scholar:	8 Citations

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