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Unit Labour Costs in the New EU Member States

Havlik, Peter - 2005

NMS as well as data on productivity, labour costs and ULC estimates in the manufacturing industry. …-to-date internationally comparable ULC estimates for NMS at both the aggregate level (for the whole GDP) and in the manufacturing industry, as …

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Macroeconomic and Sectoral Aspects of Hungary's International Competitiveness and Trade Performance on EU Markets

Oblath, Gábor; Richter, Sandor - 2002

competitiveness. First of all, labour productivity, particularly in manufacturing, grew at an outstanding rate, mainly due to FDI … attributed to improved competitiveness. The pronounced increase in manufacturing output, productivity and exports was based on … competitiveness at the macroeconomic and sectoral levels, in particular in the manufacturing industry. These features are described …

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The gender pay gap in informal employment in Poland

Rokicka, Magdalena; Ruzik, Anna - 2010

This paper addresses the issue of the gender pay gap in the formal and informal labour markets in Poland. The authors verify the hypothesis of the existence of a gender pay gap in informal work and compare this gap with the one observed in the formal (registered) labour market. Various analyses...

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Innovation and the growth of service firms: The Polish case

Szczygielski, Krzysztof; Grabowski, Wojciech; Woodward, … - 2013

Differences in the growth of firms remain a major topic in economics and strategy research. In this paper we investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point of view and then we analyze the relationship between...

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Quantiles of growth: Household debt and growth vulnerabilities in Finland

Nyholm, Juho; Voutilainen, Ville - 2021

We analyze the relationship of the distribution of future GDP growth and accumulation of household debt in Finnish macroeconomic data from 1980 to 2019. We find clear evidence that exuberant accumulation of household debt is related to the thickening of the left tail of the future growth...

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The Renewal of Production at the Product Line Level in Finnish Manufacturing

Maliranta, Mika; Valmari, Nelli - 2017

We characterize increases and decreases in plant-product -level output sales in the Finnish manufacturing sector during …

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Industry Patterns in Output, FDI and Trade: A comparison of CEECs with OECD and East Asian Countries

Wörz, Julia - 2005

constructed data set on industrial FDI stocks for six individual manufacturing industries (food, textiles/wood, petroleum …, imports, wages, productivity, unit labour cost, etc. We further analyse global specialization patterns in terms of production …

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International Competitiveness Impacts of FDI in CEECs

Hunya, Gabor - 2000

foreign sector in manufacturing increases international competitiveness. In 1994-1998 GDP growth, productivity growth … a number of industry competitiveness indicators attracting FDI, foreign penetration of industries, productivity levels … and development, market shares in the EU. In order to measure the influence of FDI on the competitiveness in manufacturing …

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Recent Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment on Growth and Restructuring in Central European Transition Countries

Hunya, Gabor - 2002

in manufacturing is closely linked to the penetration of foreign capital. Most recent 1999 data show that (i) foreign … sector enjoys advantages in terms of labour productivity, export propensity, investment propensity and profit rates; (iii … through FDI, but finds no productivity spillover to the domestic sector. …

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Croatia's Delayed Transition: Competitiveness and Economic Policy Challenges

Gligorov, Vladimir; Vidovic, Hermine - 2004

external sectors. It concentrates in more detail on the manufacturing sector and its competitiveness in comparison with … proportion in the total FDI stock, primarily in the transport and telecom segment. 2002 manufacturing output reached only … the EU and the CEE countries, the output structure of Croatian manufacturing is more similar to the less advanced southern …

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