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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States

Havlik, Peter - 2005

This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With...

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Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Developments in the New EU Member States

Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine; Ward, Terry - 2004

the EU 15 countries in terms of employment rates, employment patterns and unemployment. There are persistently high shares … of long-term unemployed, youth unemployment is twice as high as in the EU-15 and there are diverging trends in female and … lower in the other countries; but employment rates are very low (and, conversely, unemployment is high) for the low …

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Employment Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Geishecker, Ingo; Hunya, Gabor - 2005

The paper starts with a discussion of the development of the number of manufacturing sector jobs in the framework of economic transformation and industrial restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the past decade, domestically-owned manufacturing companies reduced the number employed...

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