Energy-intensive sectors face significant challenges in meeting the goals of the new European Industrial Strategy and REPowerEU. This study aims to examine how energy consumption and energy mix in four energy-intensive sectors (primary metals; non-metallic minerals; pulp, paper, and printing;...

The years of transition in Central and Eastern Europe brought with them the unprecedented - in these societies - phenomenon of restructuring with dismissals and growing unemployment. Moreover with the emergence and development of the private sector, new enterprises started to leave former...

This paper examines whether differences in wage rigidity across sectors can be explained by differences in workforce composition, wage-bargaining institutions, technology and competition. We rely on a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium over the period 1990 - 2002....

The interest for household production has grown since the release of the new System of National Accounts in 2008. In this paper we analyse how accounting for own-use production may affect labour statistics. Traditional headcount ratios may not be very informative when employment rates consider...

Die Industrie 4.0 bietet Spielräume für die Verbesserung der Arbeitsqualität, kann aber auch steigende Arbeitsintensität, Dequalifizierung und einen Verlust von Handlungsspielräumen bedeuten.

Von der Osterweiterung der EU im Jahre 2004 könnte die Exportwirtschaft in Ostdeutschland aufgrund der geographischen Nähe zu den mittel- und osteuropäischen Beitrittsländern besonders stark profitieren. Anhand der Warenexporte nach Polen und Tschechien - jenen Beitrittsländern, die an...

Advanced economies with relatively high manufacturing shares tend to have current account surpluses. One reason for this is the dominant role played by transactions involving manufactured goods in world trade. An additional factor is that the catching-up process in emerging and developing...