The service sector in Germany - structural and locational change of consumer-and enterprise-oriented services
In eastern Germany the services first gained importance following unification. So far western Germany has a much more diverse selection of high-grade enterprise-oriented services, which are concentrated in several internationally interlinked centres
. In the East the sector of high-ranking establishments (e.g. universities) is less developed. In the new Länder branches of large western firms employing modern forms of enterprise expanded into the east. These arose a diverse range of services, which
by the negative natural balance of population and increasingly by the negative balance of migration into the suburban zone, the process of deindustrialisation and - in the context of the relocation of parliament and government - an increase of service enterprises
farm enterprises cultivate about 49 ha, this is twice the size of corresponding farms in West Germany. The radical transformation process was accompanied by a massive reduction of employment to only one sixth of the initial employment figure. Today
Tourism in the GDR was organised by trade unions and enterprises which owned most of the holiday facilities, the private sector was clearly underrepresented. As a result of the transformation process private-public partnership has played a great