for high and low labor costs, with those in the three leading emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Poland …, Hungary and the Czech Republic. To this end we use firm level data to construct measures of labor costs and labor productivity … of wage costs to labor productivity) and find that by the year 2000, Poland is less competitive than the high income …

productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland …

productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland … variables in the general methods of moment technique for panel data. Only in Poland, I find that foreign firms perform better … Romania, while there are no spillovers to domestic firms in Poland. This suggests a negative competition effect that dominates …