This paper contributes to the abundant but as yet inconclusive literature on the effect increased openness to trade has on wages by presenting an analysis of industry-level data for 21 service and manufacturing industries in 25 EU countries covering the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a...

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...

A közelmúltban lezárult tárgyalások eredményeként 2004-ben várhatóan tíz új taggal bővülhet az Európai Unió. Az új tagországoknak az EU közös joganyagát teljesen át kell venniük: ennek részeként törekedniük kell az európai Gazdasági és Monetáris Unióba való...

Combining both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book provides authoritative insights into the integration of European labour markets against the background of increasing international labour mobility.

Using the Amadeus firm-level database, this paper examines sector-specific competition in a number of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) countries and its impact on price developments. Using returns on assets as our preferred indicator for the intensity of competition across 20...

We propose a comprehensive analysis of a country’s price and non-price competitiveness that accounts for changes in the value added content of trade by combining two datasets – highly disaggregated trade data from UN Comtrade with internationally integrated Supply and Use Tables from the...

We propose an export price indicator adjusted for non-price factors as a more meaningful measure of a country’s competitiveness than traditional indicators. Our starting point is the approach developed by Broda and Weinstein (2006), who adjust price developments for changes in varieties of...