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Structural Change in Europe During the Crisis

Havlik, Peter - 2014

recent crisis using some stylised facts on changing output and employment struc-tures at detailed sectoral level. Focusing … employment structures at broader sectoral (NACE-2) level and attempt to find out whether there has been a structural convergence … more than services - particularly in terms of employment - and accelerated structural change in favour of the services …

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Competitiveness of the European Economy

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M.; Stehrer, Robert - 2015

This paper uses the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to analyse changes of Europe's position in global specialisation and location patterns of exporting activity within Europe by means of a number of competitiveness indicators. We consider both manufacturing as well as tradable services. The...

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The Services Sectors in Central and Eastern Europe

Vidovic, Hermine - 2002

-country differences. Section 2 examines the changes in employment patterns that have evolved during the transition period. Further it … compares the employment patterns in the European Union with those in the CEECs and shows where there is an employment …

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Labor migration from East to West in the context of European Integration and changing socio-political borders

Uzagalieva, Ainura; Chojnicki, Xavier - 2008

Labor migration from Eastern Europe and the member countries of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to the Western countries became an important socio-economic issue. Since political systems and the nature of border management in these regions, migrations turned out to be a very complex and...

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Regional Issues, Banking Reform and Related Credit Risk in Russia

Astrov, Vasily - 2003

The last decade of the past century has been dominated by growing decentralization in Russia, both in economic and political terms. The major factors driving decentralization were the weakness of the federal government and of President Yeltsin, as well as the poor performance of the federal...

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Handwerk im ländlichen Raum

Runst, Petrik; Haverkamp, Katarzyna - 2018

Das Handwerk ist ländlich. Der Beschäftigungsbeitrag des Handwerks in ländlichen Regionen ist 33 % höher als in den städtischen Regionen. Gerade in diesen Räumen, welche eine niedrigere Wirtschaftsleistung aufweisen als Städte, übernimmt das Handwerk eine stabilisierende Funktion,...

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Human capital and education policy: Evidence from survey data

Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021

Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2021 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that...

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Consequences of future climate policy: Regional economies, financial markets, and the direction of innovation

von Schickfus, Marie-Theres - 2021

With the Paris Agreement of 2016, 189 nations signed a legally binding document to keep global warming below 2 C, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C. It was recognized that this would reduce climate change impacts substantially. All signatories submitted "Intended...

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The Evolution of Wage Inequality in Korea

Koh, Youngsun - 2018

Wage inequality in Korea has undergone several changes in 1980-2016. It fell in 1980-1994, rose in 1995-2007, and then fell again in 2008-2016. Different worker characteristics have had different impacts on wage inequality. In the early years, sex, age, and education were the three most...

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Renewal of companies: Industry switching as a form of structural change

Kuosmanen, Natalia; Kuosmanen, Timo; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; … - 2022

The contributions of entry and exit of firms to aggregate productivity growth are well-established in the literature. However, the impact of industry switching of firms on productivity remains overlooked. The purpose of this report is to shed new light on the role of industry switching as a form...

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