improvements in items for which the world demand expanded at the fastest rate over the Nineties; in particular, Estonia, Hungary …

perspective, for both individual countries and the euro area as a whole. Analysis firstly involves the estimation of PTM effects …

importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an …-based industries. Nevertheless, increased trade reinforces the productivity-wage link and weakens the co-movement of wages particularly …

advanced world, its export unit values are well below the level of developed economies. Building on the assumption that unit …

the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …

firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also, decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms are carried out. The … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …

Slovakia is engaged in an ambitious reform process which has the potential to quicken productivity growth, increase the …

research and development on the determinants of productivity gaps between the current EU-15 and accession states in central and … specialisation patterns for the explanation of observed productivity gaps and for the projection of future potentials of productivity … growth in central and eastern Europe. For the aggregated level, analysis determines the share of national productivity gaps …