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The structural challenges facing the candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey)
Europäische Kommission / Economic Policy Committee - 2004
productivity will thus be a very long term process. The growth performance in the three candidate countries in the most recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636840
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Post-crisis unemployment developments : US and EU approaching?
Casaux, Suzanne; Turrini, Alessandro - 2011
This brief reviews the evolution of the US and the European labour markets since the beginning of the financial crisis. In the US, the unemployment rate and the share of long-term unemployment grew very fast, during the crisis, thereby reaching levels close to those in the EU. Does that mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291914
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Evolving Structural Patterns in the Enlarging European Division of Labour: Sectoral and Branch Specialisation and the Potentials for Closing the Productivity Gap
Stephan, Johannes - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636897
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Trade costs, openness and productivity
Lejour, Arjan; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo; Rodriguez, Victor; … - 2009
This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640174
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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004
the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636531
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Comparing economic dynamics in the EU and CEE accession countries
Süppel, Ralph - 2003
This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635910
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Finance and growth in the EU
De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003
This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635911
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The new Lisbon strategy : an estimation of the economic impact of reaching five Lisbon targets
Gelauff, George M. M.; Lejour, Arjan M. - 2006
The Lisbon strategy could reinvigorate Europeu0092s economy and boost employment. In 2000 the European leaders agreed to stimulate economic growth and employment and make Europeu0092s economy the most competitive in the world. If Europe would really reach the goals they set, Europeu0092s Gross...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009637702
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Tax/benefit systems and growth potential of the EU
ETLA; Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos <Helsinki> - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009638991
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A policy for industrial champions
Maincent, Emmanuelle; Navarro, Lluis - 2007
of certain high-tech sectors and the growing productivity gap with the US have raised concerns about the ability of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640166