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Strengths and weaknesses of the czech economy before the accession to the EU

Parmová, Dagmar - 2012

of the European Union after its accession to the EU in 2004. The accession to the EU and related pertinence to the common …

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Probleme des öffentlichen Dienstes in der Tschechischen Republik

Frauenberger, Karen - 2006

Am 1. Mai 2004 trat die Tschechische Republik der Europäischen Union bei. Aufgrund der aus Sicht der EU unzureichenden … Verpflichtungen zu erfüllen aber auch auf die Entscheidungs-findung auf EU-Ebene entfalten kann. Diese Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit …. Dabei wird nicht nur der Umfang des Einflusses der EU untersucht, sondern auch auf Probleme wie Korruption, mangelnde …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer. The Case of the European Transition Countries and the Automotive Industry in the Czech Republic

Torlak geb. Cokoja, Elvisa - 2010

Technology transfer and the so-called productivity spillover-effects are important aspects of foreign direct investments regarding their contribution to the long-term development potential of the host countries.The effects of the foreign direct investments on the foreign and domestic companies...

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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - 2002

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

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Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies

Lauerová, Jana Stefanová; Terrell, Katherine - 2002

Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

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From Needs to the Market: Changing Inequality of Household Income in the Czech Transition

Vecernik, Jiri - 2001

Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income and its determinants over the period 1988-1996. First, the growing difficulties facing income surveys under the democratic regime are considered. Secondly, the substantive...

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Does Better Environmental Performance Affect Revenues, Cost, or Both? Evidence From a Transition Economy

Earnhart, Dietrich; Lizal, Lubomir - 2007

This study analyzes the effect of corporate environmental performance on financial performance in a transition economy. In particular, it assesses whether good environmental performance affects revenues, costs, or both, and if so, in which directions. As environmental performance improves, do...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic andRussia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies, often...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476944