competitiveness, specifically with a stronger emphasis on productivity performance, the paper also introduces a more elaborate … framework that takes into account the interactions between country-specific factors and firm-level productivity. It thus makes …

NMS as well as data on productivity, labour costs and ULC estimates in the manufacturing industry. …

competitiveness. First of all, labour productivity, particularly in manufacturing, grew at an outstanding rate, mainly due to FDI … other transition countries and gains in domestic productivity. As a consequence, the real exchange rate index based on unit … positive changes in relative productivity and costs. In the second half of the 1990s, Hungary's trade share on EU markets (in …

This paper analyses some of the factors behind the diverging productivity performances of the US and the EU over the … by two features the disappearance of the process of productivity catching-up of Europe vis-à-vis the US which had lasted … for most of the post-war period and the reversal from productivity slowdown to productivity acceleration in the US in the …