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Some empirical findings on the structural development of the Estonian economy

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Reiljan, Janno; Schrader, Klaus - 2015

Estonia is widely regarded as a paramount example for a successful transformation of a socialist economic system to a functioning market economy. Against the backdrop of this positive image which contrasts strongly with the crisis scenarios in Southern Europe the remaining problems of Estonia...

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The German Economy and EU Industrial Tariff Reductions: Partial and CGE Analyses of a Stillborn Millennium Round

Spinanger, Dean; Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H. - 2000

The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...

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Offshoring and labour market inequalities

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …

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Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2008

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...

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Outsourcing, offshoring and innovation: Evidence from firmlevel data for emerging economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - 2013

and to introduce new products and upgrade existing products. The effect of offshoring on R&D spending is significantly …

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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers

Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

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From transition crises to macroeconomic stability? Lessons from a crises early warning system for Eastern European and CIS countries

Kittelmann, Kristina; Tirpak, Marcel; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2006

This paper uses a Markov regime-switching model to assess the vulnerability of a series of Central and Eastern European countries (i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic) and two CIS countries (i.e., Russia and Ukraine) during the period 19932004. For the new EU member states in Central...

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Spillover effects from euro area monetary policy across the EU: A factor-augmented VAR approach

Potjagailo, Galina - 2016

I analyze spillover effects from Euro area monetary policy shocks to thirteen EU countries outside the Euro area, i.e., ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and three Western EU members. The analysis is based on a FAVAR model with two blocks which exploits a large cross-country...

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Institutional constraints to political budget cycles in the enlarged EU

Ademmer, Esther; Dreher, Ferdinand - 2014

This paper revisits Political Budget Cycles (PBCs) in the enlarged European Union (EU). Based on a panel of 25 current EU member states from 1996 to 2012, we show that governments frequently fiscally stimulate the economy prior to elections; a phenomenon that is seemingly not only an 'Eastern...

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Complementary tasks and the limits to the division of labour

Görlich, Dennis - 2010

During the recent decades, multitasking has become a more and more common phenomenon at workplaces. Rather than specializing in a job task, workers perform bundles of tasks. Bundling occurs when tasks are complements. Using individual-level data about job tasks, we analyze which tasks are...

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