Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...

Krugman's verdict that competitiveness of countries is a largely meaningless concept is a serious misjudgement of the economics profession. Countries compete for the mobile factors of production, most importantly for capital and technology. The exit-option of these factors and of firms changes...

Die Studie untersucht im einzelnen die Probleme und Erfolgsaussichten der Umstrukturierung Mittel- und Osteuropas. In einem ersten Untersuchungsabschnitt werden in einer Länderquerschnittsanalyse für diese Länder die Gemeinsamkeiten der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung bis zum Umbruch im Jahre...