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better than at any time during the last decade. Driven by higher import demand from the EU, the Central and East European … prices while its industry is still cashing on the import substitution effects after devaluation. Industry has been the main … minority differences which have serious implications for economic and social policies. Foreign trade has once again become an …
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The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...
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Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...
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In light of recent global economic and geopolitical shocks threatening trade openness, this report aims to shed light … central banks. The report shows that, although global trade integration has largely withstood recent disruptions and the rise … policies, however, is self-defeating. In an extreme counterfactual scenario involving prohibitive and across-the-board trade …
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of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after acquisition. Our …
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at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural … costs of natural disasters: trade openness and income per capita (Chapter 4), and natural disasters, international …
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Despite notable improvements in the labour market since 2013, wage growth in the euro area was subdued and substantially overpredicted in 2013-17. This paper summarises the findings of an ESCB expert group on the reasons for low wage growth and provides comparable analyses on wage developments...
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There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most … paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in … Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The …
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Marginal employment, so-called Minijobs, represent a significant part of the dependent employment in Germany. In 20121 … motivations of the employees and the employers and the perception of rights like the continued payment of wages and maternity …
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consequences of the technological disruption caused by the advent of first-generation broadband internet for world trade. I present … in complex goods. Gravity estimates based on bilateral trade among more than 100 countries between 1998 and 2016 support …
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