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The trend to the services economy has been a fact for many years. Unlike the early forecasts, however, the growth of the services sector is determined by skilled or intellectual rather than unskilled services. This trend was examined in studies in the eighties and followed up in more recent forecasts of the European economy.
Today it seems to be clear that competitiveness and sectoral transitions in the developed countries are dominated by human capital resources accumulated in the services economy.
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Literature
- Employment Trends and Sectors of Growth in the Cultural Economy of the European Union.
Module 2 of the Report: Exploitation and development of the job potential in the cultural sector in the age of digitalisation. Vogler-Ludwig (forthcoming)
- Strukturwandel des Arbeitsmarktes.
In: M. Hummel et al.: Stärken und Schwächen Deutschlands im internationalen Wettbewerb um Einkommen und Arbeitsplätze. Strukturbericht 1995. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin. Vogler-Ludwig (1996)
- Medium term employment forecasts by EU regions and sectors of industry.
European Commission, Luxembourg. Vogler-Ludwig et al. (1994)
- Dynamik der Dienstleistungs- produktion in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
ifo Schnelldienst 14-15, 1987. Vogler-Ludwig (1987)
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