New Hungarian government prescribes bitter medicine (by S. Richter; pp. 1-2) Keywords Hungary, crisis, fiscal adjustment Countries covered Hungary Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy The steel industry in Central and Eastern Europe restructuring and prospects (by J. Poznanska; pp....

In this paper we test the hypothesis that the sector bias of skill-biased technical change is important in explaining the rising relative wage of skilled workers in the manufacturing sector in three Central and Eastern European transition countries. The evidence for Hungary and Poland is...

The process of European Union (EU) integration proceeds from economic to political integration. The economic integration itself proceeds from trade to financial to complete market integration. The sustainability of the process depends on some causal relation existing between economic and...

Unit labour cost developments in the EU a structural analysis (by Michael Landesmann and Doris Hanzl-Weiss; pp. 1-9) Keywords unit labour costs rebalancing, competitiveness Countries covered European Union Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI The various ‘faces’ of the EU...

Twenty years of transition (by S. Richter; pp. 1-8) Keywords transition Countries covered New EU Member States Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy Vertical integration of trade with China (by R. Stöllinger; pp. 9-13) Keywords trade, integration Countries covered China, EU-27...

Austria's economic relations with Ukraine (by V. Astrov; pp. 1-3) Keywords economic cooperation, neighbourhood policy Countries covered Austria, Ukraine Topics International Trade and Competitiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Integration NMS grain production in 2009 calm on the market...

Higher global grain output but still fairly high food prices (by Zdenek Lukas; pp. 1-4) Keywords agricultural production, demand for food, food prices, biofuels Countries covered Wider Europe Topics Sectoral studies The speed of catch-up depends on human capital (by Roman Stöllinger; pp. 5-9)...

MENA in transition any lessons from CESEE? (by Peter Havlik and Sándor Richter; pp. 1-7) Keywords MENA, transition Countries covered MENA, CESEE Topics Other The EU and Russia both important for Ukraine (by Vasily Astrov; pp. 8-9) Keywords Ukraine, trade association, Russia, EU Countries...

This paper discusses the transition agenda and provides the key economic characteristics of selected Middle East and North Africa countries (MENA) in comparison with selected Central, East and Southeast European countries (CESEE). We intend to identify some regularities in transition processes...

In this paper is estimated the wage gap between the public and the private sector in Serbia, for women and men separately. The results show that, with advance of the transition, the public sector generates wage premium for those who work in that sector compared to the employed in the private...