Arbeitsmarktentwicklung im Logistiksektor: Bedeutung, Dynamik und (De-) Regulierung der Distributionswirtschaft

Noppe Ronald and Plehwe Dieter
Additional contact information
Noppe Ronald: Duisburg-Essen
Plehwe Dieter: Berlin

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2007, vol. 51, issue 1, 77-92

Abstract: Labour market development in the logistics sector. Importance, dynamics and (de-)regulation of the distribution economy. Deregulation and innovation in commercial and industrial transportation, warehousing and distribution led to the rise of a modern logistics sector. Both for Germany and the US scholars have argued that expanding logistics services help to compensate for the decline in manufacturing employment. An examination of national employment statistics to the contrary shows logistics employment to be in absolute (Germany) or relative (US) decline. While the share of logistics jobs requiring higher qualifications seems to increase in both countries, many lower skilled activities seem to be subject to productivity increase and/or (international) relocation. If dynamics in the logistic sector contribute to the decline of manufacturing employment in various ways, employment in this sector overall does not contribute to the rising share of employment in the service sector.

Date: 2007
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.2007.0006 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:zfwige:v:51:y:2007:i:1:p:77-92:n:6

DOI: 10.1515/zfw.2007.0006

Access Statistics for this article

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography is currently edited by Harald Bathelt and Sebastian Henn

More articles in ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().