!!!Dienstleistungen

Services. Economic activity which does not result in the production of 
goods. Service industries include the economic branches of trade and 
storage, hotel and catering, transport and communications, banking and 
finance, insurance and business services as well as personal, social 
and public services. According to the legal status of the service 
provider, there are public and private services; according to the 
target group, services may be either personal or production-oriented 
or those benefiting the industry as a whole or the individual 
enterprise.

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In the context of modernisation theories, the service sector has 
acquired an important indicator function. A high proportion of 
services of the total net product or total employment is 
characteristic of developed post-industrial societies. Whereas in 
Austria in 1951, 32.6% were still employed in the primary sector 
(agriculture), 37.8% in the secondary sector (industry and production) 
and only 29.6% in the tertiary sector (services), this had changed 
drastically by 1997: 63.2% in the service sector, 31.1% in the 
secondary sector and 6.7% in the primary sector. In the last 50 years 
drastic changes have taken place; due to a balanced economic and 
social policy there have been no serious social tensions.

!Literature
M. Mesch (ed.), Neue Arbeitsplaetze in Oesterreich. Die 
Beschaeftigungsentwicklung im oesterreichischen 
Dienstleisstungssektor, 1998.


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