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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294574
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Convergence Patterns at the Industrial Level: the Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
Burgstaller, Johann; Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 1999
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence issue at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or divergence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are especially important in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099840
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Potential Switchovers in Comparative Advantage: Patterns of Industrial Convergence
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and / or divergence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099843
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Technological Convergence and Trade Patterns
Stehrer, Robert; Wörz, Julia - 2001
Casual evidence suggests that emerging and developing countries are often gaining market shares in world exports in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099848
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Trade Liberalization and Labour Markets: Perspective from OECD Economies
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; Stehrer, Robert - 2001
disaggregated data-set comprising 23 manufacturing industries for which production, employment and trade statistics were compiled … (on employment and on wages) both at a descriptive level and by means of econometric analysis. Evidence for trade effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099849
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Industrial Diversity, Trade Patterns and Productivity Convergence
Stehrer, Robert; Wörz, Julia - 2002
Recent developments in economic integration show rather diverse patterns of integration into the world economy. Some countries are remaining in the low-tech industries whereas other countries succeed in becoming competitive also in high-tech industries. In this paper we postulate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099852
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Do Exporters Share Part of their Rents with their Employees? Evidence from Austrian Manufacturing Firms
Leitner, Sandra M.; Stehrer, Robert - 2011
which induces employees to concede to more moderate wage changes so as to avert the potential loss of employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099902
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The Gravity of Cross-border R&D Expenditure
Dachs, Bernhard; Leitner, Sandra M.; Stehrer, Robert - 2012
While up to the 1990s, R&D was still 'an important case of non-globalization' (Patel and Pavitt 1991), the internationalization of business R&D activities has accelerated significantly during the past two decades. R&D activities of foreign affiliates have become one of the most dynamic elements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099920
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Competitiveness of CEE Industries: Evidence From Foreign Trade Specialization and Quality Indicators
Havlik, Peter; Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2001
, the EU export surplus in manufacturing trade is diminishing. Candidate countries' exports to the EU have been increasingly … account for a growing share of exports in nearly all candidate countries, labour-intensive industries have growing export …' exports to the EU is still - with the notable exception of Hungary - much bigger than in the present EU member states; the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100014
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The CEECs in the Enlarged Europe: Convergence Patterns, Specialization and Labour Market Implications
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2002
This paper discusses the evolution of competitiveness, industrial and trade specialization of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). It is shown that the paths taken by the different CEECs have been quite diverse and we attempt to show that a combination of a catching-up plus trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100022