Skills and the competitiveness of EU manufacturing industries (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer, pp. 1-11) Keywords … skills, competitiveness, manufacturing, EU Countries covered European Union Topics Industry; International Trade and …

, trade intensity, manufacturing Countries covered EU, CEE, OECD, East Asia Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and …

-to-date internationally comparable ULC estimates for NMS at both the aggregate level (for the whole GDP) and in the manufacturing industry, as … NMS as well as data on productivity, labour costs and ULC estimates in the manufacturing industry. …

constructed data set on industrial FDI stocks for six individual manufacturing industries (food, textiles/wood, petroleum …

account of tax allowances; and (v) economic growth and income generation through FDI increase the tax base. Structural change … in manufacturing is closely linked to the penetration of foreign capital. Most recent 1999 data show that (i) foreign …

external sectors. It concentrates in more detail on the manufacturing sector and its competitiveness in comparison with … proportion in the total FDI stock, primarily in the transport and telecom segment. 2002 manufacturing output reached only … the EU and the CEE countries, the output structure of Croatian manufacturing is more similar to the less advanced southern …

and development, market shares in the EU. In order to measure the influence of FDI on the competitiveness in manufacturing … enterprises) by all indicators was reached by Hungary in each year between 1993 and 1998. 70% of manufacturing sales came from … FIEs, which employed 45% of the manufacturing labour force in 1998. The second place is occupied by Poland with 41% of …

competitiveness at the macroeconomic and sectoral levels, in particular in the manufacturing industry. These features are described … competitiveness. First of all, labour productivity, particularly in manufacturing, grew at an outstanding rate, mainly due to FDI … manufacturing products) increased by 1 percentage point. As for the components of that market share increase, roughly 80% can be …