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Social Monitor 2002 reviews recent socio-economic developments in the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It contains three articles: Social trends in transition: an update on trends in a range of topics including income and poverty, fertility,...
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Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. A challenge to the enlarged Union's (EU …, only Estonia and Lithuania currently meet all the Maastricht convergence criteria. A brief study of foreign trade data … membership are heterogeneous. Three of them, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, have acquired candidate status; their economies are …
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We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countries’ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...
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This paper studies the impact of exogenous and endogenous shocks (exogenous shock is used interchangeably with external shock; endogenous shock is used interchangeably with domestic shock) on output fluctuations in post-communist countries during the 2000s. The first part presents the analytical...
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The most recent enlargement of the European Union, which incorporated post-communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), placed relatively little emphasis on the equal opportunities of men and women. However, acceding countries were required to implement Chapter 13 (‘Employment...
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, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. Inflation dynamics in short-run inflation were influenced by inertia, labour costs … analyse dynamic properties of the models. We find that Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria can be … characterised by cost-push inflation from a long-run perspective whereas demand-side factors are more characteristic for Slovenia …
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Examines legislative changes since 1990 in Central and Eastern European countries with regard to the mechanisms, institutions and levels of collective bargaining, the legal nature of collective agreements, union representativeness, and labour dispute settlement.
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