groups of transition countries (new EU member states vs. CIS) in terms of adopted transition strategy and accomplished … of slow reforms were also dramatic: income degradation and rising inequalities, high level of poverty and corruption … in Russia has been very limited what can be explained by administrative barriers, widespread corruption, lack of …

The paper assesses differences in productivity and its determinants among enterprises manufacturing cosmetics and … enterprises from the new member states. Productivity gap vis-a-vis Germany in this labour-intensive industry disappears in the … productivity gap. The paper ends with policy recommendations. …

protection policies and trade relations with the EU and productivity dynamics and their determinants. Secondly, it presents four …

This NEUJOBS research report focuses on links between age, productivity and lifelong learning. Various data sources (EU … strongly influenced by the timing of entering and leaving labour market. An estimation of the impact of LLL on productivity …

overall. A drop in the productivity gap between the manufacturing industries of the three accession and the incumbent EU … foreign) productivity rather than differences in level and changes in productivity among industries of a given country. The … dynamics and levels of productivity among the Czech and Polish larger winners were lower than the manufacturing average of both …

and productivity becomes more and more important. One can be afraid that as the average age of the working individual goes … up, the average level of productivity growth will go down, resulting in decreasing competitiveness of European economies … current candidates) and the EU15, the former are the first order candidates to experience higher than average productivity …

reveal differentiation in levels and changes in relative productivity in those industries that increased their EU market … share. It also shows that the larger the initial differences in labour productivity across industries, the stronger the …