Employment and skills are at the core of Europe 2020, the European Union's (EU) competitiveness strategy, and are … decisive for high productivity and sustained growth. Romania has overcome significant challenges on its path to EU membership … economic crisis and because important reforms in employment and education have not yet been completed. The Europe 2020 Romania …

of the market economy, improved productivity, and enhancement of competitiveness. This report focuses on three critical …

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current … exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …