, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … completely unresponsive mode characteristic of central planning, but rapidly caught up with their counterparts in Hungary and … Poland. …

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the … Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there are arguably no significant competitiveness effects on firms, at least …

indirectly affected by rising export demand. Furthermore, we examine potential impacts on specific worker groups, such as high …

Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …