growth of labour productivity went hand in hand with declining employment, and even with considerable job losses in the … resulted overwhelmingly from across-the-board productivity improvements in individual sectors of the economy while employment … creation of additional jobs. The required further productivity convergence with the EU-15 may thus be in conflict with the …

and move on to discuss patterns of productivity and wage catching-up across industries which give rise to interesting …

Western economies and in CESEE (by Mario Holzner; pp. 4-8 ) Evaluating the convergence of the ‘emerging economies’ the case of … Central, East and Southeast Europe (by Joanna Poznanska and Kazimierz Poznanski; pp. 9-11) Wages and Employment in the Western …

Employment and unemployment in the Western Balkans an assessment (by A. Iara and H. Vidovic, pp. 1-10) Keywords labour … market, employment, Western Balkans Countries covered SEE Topics Labour and Migration Skills and the performance of exports … (by R. Stehrer; pp. 11-14) Keywords export performance, skills, productivity Countries covered European Union, New EU …

Converging/diverging European regions (by R. Römisch, pp. 1-4) Keywords Regions, EU, Convergence Countries covered …

employment record which has not even started to turn around, as well as an extremely bad productivity and export performance. In …

Real economic convergence within the EU (by Rumen Dobrinsky; pp. 1- 5) Keywords convergence, panel regressions …

employment record which has not even started to turn around, as well as an extremely bad productivity and export performance. In …

close association across regions between GDP per head and the employment rate, though the capital cities have higher … employment than the national average in all countries, while the lowest employment rates are in the basic service regions in both … the NMS and the EU-15. The highest employment rate in Poland and Romania is in the agricultural regions; this reflects the …