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Trends in productivity and sources of productivity growth in Slovenia
Sila, Urban; Morgavi, Hermes; Dall'Orso, Jeanne - 2017
Slovenia’s living standards measured in GDP per capita are currently some 20% below the EU15 average and have not yet … manufacturing has risen in the last two decades, and their share in total manufacturing value added is relatively high in Slovenia … before the crisis in Slovenia, while the contribution of human capital was low. With the crisis, however, the GDP growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700158
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Boosting export performance in Portugal
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2015
In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export performance is therefore one of the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399650
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Arbeitskosten, Steuerbelastung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in Österreich im Vergleich mit ausgewählten CEEs
Havlik, Peter; Leitner, Sebastian; Römisch, Roman - 2011
, Slovakia and Slovenia). The CEEs still enjoy sizeable cost advantages, yet the fast growth of their unit labour costs implies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152987
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Malaysia's economic success story and challenges
Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Nixon, Stewart; … - 2017
Malaysia has sustained over four decades of rapid, inclusive growth, reducing its dependence on agriculture and commodity exports to become a more diversified, modern and open economy. GDP per capita is now higher than in a number of OECD economies, while poverty and income inequality have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700166
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Reaching up and reaching out : the impact of competition on firms' productivity and export decisions
Hynes, Kate; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei; Yan, Isabel K. M. - 2017
This paper investigates the effect of competition in both the domestic and foreign markets on firm productivity and export decisions using firm level data from 139 countries. Using a Sample Selection Endogenous Treatment (SSET) Poisson model that tackles both the issue of endogenous sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730197
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The impact of import competition from China on firm-level productivity growth in the EU
Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Kügler, Agnes; Reinstaller, … - 2021
We revisit the impact of rising imports from China on within firm labour productivity growth in the EU. The period analysed is 2003 through 2016 and thus covers the recent increase of technology-intensive imports from China. We find that higher fractions of Chinese imports in aggregate imports...
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Strategic Management and Innovativeness for Better (Global) Business Competitiveness : Case of Slovenia
Štrukelj, Tjaša - 2013
) business competitiveness. In our research we present Slovenia case …
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From Innovation to Exporting or Vice Versa? Causal Link between Innovation Activity and Exporting in Slovenian Microdata
Damijan, Jože P.; Kostevc, Črt; Polanec, Saao - 2014
Firm productivity and export decisions are closely related to innovation activity. Product innovation may play a more important role in the decision to start exporting, while successful exporting may drive process innovation. This suggests that the causality between innovation and exporting may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218194
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
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Measuring globalization : better trade statistics for better policy
Houseman, Susan N. (contributor);  … - 2015
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