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[IWS] EMCC: New! CONSTRUCTION & Knowledge-intensive BUSINESS SERVICES SECTORS (Change) [28 September 2005]

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Institute for Workplace Studies                   Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations           Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                    Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                        Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)


EMCC dossier on the European construction sector [
28 September 2005]
< http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05017a.html>

Construction is one of Europe's biggest industries, including the building, civil engineering, demolition and maintenance industries. The sector has an annual turnover in excess of 900 billion and more than 12 million employees in the EU15 alone. This EMCC dossier provides an in-depth analysis of the trends and forces driving change in the sector, using a compilation of relevant reports, company case studies and scenarios to give a comprehensive insight into a sector facing important challenges today.



The knowledge-intensive business services sector: Towards visions for the future and policy implications [28 September 2005]
< http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05016a.html>
or
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2005/ef0559en.pdf (1 Mb) [full text, 28 pages]

The second article in the Sector Futures series on the KIBS sector explores, in greater depth, the reasons for the sector's growth and draws up three alternative scenarios for its future development. The third and last article in this series goes on to review a range of policy issues that are raised by the three scenarios and outlines major policy responses to these issues.

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