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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379808
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100137
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100025
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430816
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964167
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100036
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520408
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643580
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Identifying revealed comparative advantages in an EU regional context
Cordes, Alexander; Gehrke, Birgit; Römisch, Roman; … - 2015
[Introduction ...] Overall, this report is structured as follows: the next chapter (2) briefly outlines the relevance of regional trade indicators for determining the competitiveness of a region. In chapter 3, the methodology for the calculation of regional trade performance indicators is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528089
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278198