Year 2020

• What fosters firm-level labour productivity in Eastern European and Central Asian countries?

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  • A. Kordalska
  • M. Olczyk

  - Bank i Kredyt - Year 2020

  This study examines labour productivity performance and its determinants in Eastern European and Central Asian (EECA) firms using micro-level data. We find significant differences in labour productivity among members of the European Union in Eastern Europe and other Eastern European and Central Asian countries. We also confirm the important impact of foreign ownership, exporter status, and highly skilled workers on productivity...

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Year 2013

• The evolving structure of Polish exports (1994-2010) - diversification of products and trade partners.

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  • A. Parteka

  - Bank i Kredyt - Year 2013

  This paper presents empirical evidence on the diversification process concerning Polish exports (1994–2010), compared to European and global samples of countries. It analyzes both the commodity structure of Polish trade and the geographical diversification of Poland’s trading partners. The analysis draws on highly disaggregated data on exports (HS 6 digit) and combines descriptive analysis with non-parametric, semi-parametric and...

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Year 2009

• Price convergence in the European Union and in the new member states

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  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz
  • R. De Blander

  - Bank i Kredyt - Year 2009

  This paper examines price dispersion in the European Union (EU15) and in three New Member States (Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic) between 1995 and 2006. The analysis utilizes both disaggregate and aggregate price data, including the prices of 157 products and two indices constructed using two different weighting procedures. For each category of goods the price dispersion is lower in EU15 than EU15 plus 3 NMS. Sigma convergence...

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• Empirical investigation on labour market interactions in an enlarged Europe

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  • A. Lo Turco
  • A. Parteka

  - Bank i Kredyt - Year 2009

  This paper proposes an empirical assessment of economic interactions between the labour markets ofthe integrating EU over the period of time 1995-2005. Drawing on recently made available industrystatistics, we provide a sector level study (13 tradable sectors, including manufacturing and services),analysing the contemporary evolution of domestic and trade partners' employment levels. Given theintensification of trade relations...

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• Does migration lead to economic convergence in an enlarged European market?

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  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz

  - Bank i Kredyt - Year 2009

  This paper examines the relationship between migration and convergence for the enlarged internal market of the European Union (EU27) for the period 1990-2007. The impact of migration on growth is estimated in two ways: by including the migration rate in a growth regression and examining its impact on the convergence coefficient; and from the actual coefficient on migration, which can be interpreted as the effect of migration on...

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