Productivity Growth in Services Industries: An Assessment of Recent Patterns and the Role of Measurement

Wölfl, Anita

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“…This decline is predicted to 11 In Japan, the union density rate fell from 31.1% in 1980 to 25 continue into the future ( [3,8,12,47,48,119,156,169,170,172]). 12 From the perspective of Marxian political economy, the decline in manufacturing follows a (prophetically) recognizable script.…”

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Policing the industrial reserve army: An international study

Rigakos

Ergul

2011

Crime Law Soc Change

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Over the past three decades, the industrialized world has witnessed four resilient social trends: (1) the consistent erosion of union-membership; (2) an increase in income polarization and inequality; (3) a dramatic resurgence in popular protest; and (4) a steady rise in public and private policing employment. In this paper, we examine the relationship between these trends by theorizing and operationalizing the notion of the "industrial reserve army" and a series of related tenets in order to conduct an international (N=45), empirical test of a nascent Marxian model of policing. By treating total policing employment as an empirical barometer of bourgeois insecurity we find that this insecurity is conditioned by two elements of Marxian political economy: (1) relative deprivation (income inequality) and (2) the rise of an industrial reserve army (manufacturing employment and unemployment). Second, while surplus value and labour militancy (strikes and lockouts per 100,000 population) rise along with union membership, the presence of higher rates of unionization appears to ameliorate the need for more policing in all but post-USSR countries. While unions assist in checking the immiseration of workers through labour actions, union membership is nonetheless inversely correlated to policing employment, giving credence to the Marxian idea that while unions help mitigate against the exploitation workers, they also act as "lieutenants of capital," performing an essential policing function under capitalism.Trade-unions have always been the most effective representatives of the organized labour movement to protect workers from the erosion of their wages and to control changes made in working conditions and hours worked. For Marxist political economists, the function of trade-unions was never limited to the immediate Crime Law Soc Change (2011) 56:329-371

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Policing the industrial reserve army: An international study

Rigakos

Ergul

2011

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…The second strand of research attempts to take Griliches (1992) seriously and tries to identify methods to calculate output and prices for the different services' typologies (Wölfl, 2003;Diewert, 2011).…”

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Productivity in Services Twenty Years on. A Review of Conceptual and Measurement Issues and a Way Forward

Grassano

Savona

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…Nowadays other authors such as Triplett and Bosworth (2000), Wölfl (2003), andCuadrado Roura (2009) have shown the limited basis of these arguments. According to them, services sector industries include many different activities, some of them with high productivity levels and competitive performance are similar to those in industry.…”

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Research, Development and Innovation Impact in Services and Industry: The Canary Islands Case

Castillo¹,

Paton²,

Barroeta³

2012

CUBR

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The services sector represents about 70% of developed economies (in terms of employment and value added) and its evolution has contributed significantly to economic growth during the last decade. However, the services have traditionally considered residual sectors and they have not been (not even now) a target for the main R&D and innovation policy support. Contrary to the traditional thoughts, according to the results achieved comparing Canary Islands and Spanish services sector and manufacturing sector, the first contributes significantly to economic growth and productivity. The results point out that due to the significant contribution of innovation and R&D's efforts to GDP and productivity, it becomes a necessity and an opportunity to promote and further enhance services sector competitiveness through a more focused R&D and innovation support. The analysis carried out indicates the need of encouraging innovative efforts in the services sector as a means to improve its productivity levels not only with the sector itself but also the whole economy.

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Productivity Growth in Services Industries: An Assessment of Recent Patterns and the Role of Measurement

Cited by 56 publications

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Policing the industrial reserve army: An international study

Policing the industrial reserve army: An international study

Productivity in Services Twenty Years on. A Review of Conceptual and Measurement Issues and a Way Forward

Research, Development and Innovation Impact in Services and Industry: The Canary Islands Case

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