Using Business Functions to Identify New and Growing Jobs

Sem Vandekerckhove and Monique Ramioul

Chapter 3 in Hard Work in New Jobs, 2015, pp 35-48 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter attempts to analyse changes in employment structures that came about in the period leading up to the 2008 crisis as a result of developments in the division of labour, economic convergence, global value chain restructuring and employment policies. Our definition of ‘new and growing jobs’ is based on a number of methodological choices made in order to select industries that have witnessed important job growth and to select a unit of analysis for measuring employment within job clusters over time which reflects organisational strategies. We look in particular at the dynamics of specialisation, professionalisation and bureaucratisation by sector and in a EU-comparative perspective. More specifically, we propose two innovative steps in job growth research, the first of which is the measurement of growth. As documented in a methodological note (Vandekerckhove, 2014), we touched on the issue of having to choose one of two possible indicators of job growth: either absolute trends or relative ones, each resulting in very different rankings for job growth at the sector level. The Balanced Absolute and Relative Trends (BART) measure we suggest provides a way out of this dilemma by balancing absolute and relative trends in growth; we use this measure to select industries that witnessed substantial growth before the 2008 crisis.

Keywords: Support Function; Core Function; Business Function; Wholesale Trade; Refuse Disposal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137461087_3

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