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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States

Havlik, Peter - 2005

This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With...

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The effects of migration and remittances in rural Moldova

Hristev, Eugene; Mincu, Georgeta; Sandu, Maya; … - 2009

Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total...

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Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Developments in the New EU Member States

Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine; Ward, Terry - 2004

the EU 15 countries in terms of employment rates, employment patterns and unemployment. There are persistently high shares … of long-term unemployed, youth unemployment is twice as high as in the EU-15 and there are diverging trends in female and … lower in the other countries; but employment rates are very low (and, conversely, unemployment is high) for the low …

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Employment Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Geishecker, Ingo; Hunya, Gabor - 2005

The paper starts with a discussion of the development of the number of manufacturing sector jobs in the framework of economic transformation and industrial restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the past decade, domestically-owned manufacturing companies reduced the number employed...

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Gravity Model Applications and Macroeconomic Perspectives

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013

This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...

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