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The report analyses recent economic developments and short- and medium-term development prospects, covering the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe including Turkey, together with Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and China. Separate chapters present an overview of...
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and move on to discuss patterns of productivity and wage catching-up across industries which give rise to interesting …
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Austria's economic relations with Russia (by V. Astrov; pp. 1-5) Keywords economic cooperation, neighbourhood policy Countries covered Austria, Russia Topics International Trade and Competitiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Integration The structure of jobs across the EU some...
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Summary Industrial policies in the EU have markedly shifted towards ‘horizontal’ measures and framework polices. The sustained de-industrialisation of several European economies and a general perception that countries with a strong manufacturing base emerged from the crisis in a strengthened...
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decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization … relationship is complex, and identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future …
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In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … analyzes the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results (from micro-econometric studies …
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About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...
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(by R. Stehrer; pp. 11-14) Keywords export performance, skills, productivity Countries covered European Union, New EU …
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FDI Productivity of imports in the transition countries evidence from the 2000s (by Leon Podkaminer; pp. 7-9) Keywords … imports, trade, productivity Countries covered CEE, SEE Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy The central bank as hedge …
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