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The Transition Countries in Early 2000: Improved Outlook for Growth, But Unemployment Is Still Rising

Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2000

Both the current economic situation and the short-term growth outlook of virtually all countries in transition are better than at any time during the last decade. Driven by higher import demand from the EU, the Central and East European countries are enjoying an export boom which fuels their GDP...

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Trade Liberalization and Labour Markets: Perspective from OECD Economies

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2001

This study looks at the relationship between trade integration and labour markets for a group of OECD economies (USA, Japan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom). We examine particularly trade relationships between these OECD economies and different groups of 'Southern'...

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International Outsourcing and the Skill-Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe

Egger, Peter; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2001

The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of skill-specific real wage bills in manufacturing of three Central and East European countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic). Both intermediate goods exports and imports of...

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South-North Integration, Outsourcing and Skills

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

This paper focuses on the increasing role played by lower- and medium-income countries in the global economy. In particular we look at the role of outsourcing in the process of trade integration of these countries. Further we discuss the impact of these integration patterns upon labour markets...

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Trade Integration, Production Fragmentation and Performance in Europe - Blessing or Curse? A Comparative Analysis of the New Member States and the EU-15

Leitner, Sandra M.; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Summary Fundamental changes in the global trade landscape in terms of considerably expanding trade volumes and rapidly advancing global fragmentation of production processes have opened up new opportunities for many economies. The ensuing analysis determines whether these new opportunities have...

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Trade Integration, Outsourcing and Employment in Austria: A Decomposition Approach

Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of trade integration and outsourcing in the Austrian economy over the periods 1995-2000 and 2000-2005. Based on an input-output framework, we apply a hierarchical decomposition analysis to disentangle the...

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Offshoring and the Elasticity of Labour Demand

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012

This paper examines the impact of offshoring on labour elasticities for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 …-2009 using the recently compiled World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Including measures of narrow and broad offshoring, as well … as indicators of manufacturing and services offshoring, in conditional and unconditional labour demand equations we find …

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Revival of the Visegrad Countries’ Mutual Trade after their EU Accession: a Search for Explanation

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Hunya, Gabor; Pindyuk, Olga; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2011

After the Visegrad countries’ accession to the EU in 2004, one of the most remarkable developments was the sudden upturn in their mutual trade. In 2007 the value of aggregate intra-Visegrad trade was two and a half times higher than in 2003. The rate of growth in these countries’ trade with...

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Restructuring Through FDI in Romanian Manufacturing

Hunya, Gabor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2002

Romania has experienced a drawn-out transformation process and received relatively low amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI). But it has become competitive in labour-intensive manufacturing industries through the integration into European company networks by processing trade. The country...

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Trade in Services: Cross-Border Trade vs. Commercial Presence. Evidence of Complementarity

Lennon, Carolina - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

This paper investigates empirically the relationship between trade and FDI in services. Using bilateral data on US foreign affiliates' sales and trade as well as data on barriers to FDI, the relationship is investigated using different panel techniques, including fixed effects and...

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