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  • Do new EU members have any chance of earning as much as Westerns do?

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    - Year 2009

    This article examines the wage dispersion in the European Union in the last ten years (1996-2006). The research is motivated by the fact that New Members States (NMS) expected that wage convergence would occurred after their accession to the EU. At the same time Old Member States (OMS) have been increasingly concerned with the possibility that the EU enlargement could influence their local labor markets and wages through new channels...

  • Does one currency mean one price?

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    European Monetary Union was expected to have many consequences for the economies of participant countries. Theory suggested that through a higher volume of trade and stronger competition in the Eurozone, a single currency would lead to a reduction in price dispersion. As far as prices are concerned, two effects were expected: an immediate effect due to the technical characteristics of the changeover process, and a long-term one...

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  • Dynamics of productivity in higher education: cross-european evidence based on bootstrapped Malmquist indices

    Abstract This study examines patterns of productivitychange in a large set of 266 public higher educationinstitutions (HEIs) in 7 European countries across the timeperiod 2001-2005. We adopt consistent bootstrap estimationprocedures to obtain confidence intervals for Malmquistindices of HEI productivity and their components.Consequently, we are able to assess the statistical significanceof changes in HEI productivity, efficiency...

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  • Supporting the development of clusters in Poland - dillemas faced by public policy

    Clusters have proved to be an important source of competitiveness for the economic development of regions within the European Union. In recent years many countries in the EU and throughout the world have launched policies aimed at supporting the development of clusters. There are many examples of good practices in the field of cluster policy, but there is no single model that can be applied in all countries and regions. This paper...

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  • Export diversification and economic development: a dynamic spatial data analysis

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    - Gecomplexity Discussion Papers - Year 2015

    This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the relationship between ‘export variety’ (export diversification) and economic development by relaxing the assumption of cross-country independence and allowing for spatial diffusion of shocks in observed and unobserved factors. Export variety is measured for a balanced panel of 114 countries (1992-2012) using very detailed information on their exports (HS 6-digit product...

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  • Financial aspects of supporting Ukrainian refugees

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    Warfare in Ukraine meant that in 2022 many countries, including Poland and other European, focused mainly on helping refugees from Ukraine and humanitarian transports. The assistance took on various forms - from basic humanitarian support, through in-kind help, financial and military assistance. Poland launched its humanitarian aid in the first days of the conflict. The aid provided by each country varies. It should be noted, however,...

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  • Artificial intelligence and productivity: global evidence from AI patent and bibliometric data

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    In this paper we analyse the relationship between technological innovation in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain and macroeconomic productivity. We embed recently released data on patents and publications related to AI in an augmented model of productivity growth, which we estimate for the OECD countries and compare to an extended sample including non-OECD countries. Our estimates provide evidence in favour of the modern productivity...

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  • WHAT DRIVES CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN EXPORT VARIETY? A BILATERAL PANEL APPROACH

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    A worldwide event like the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak can only reinforce the interest in modelling trade diversification as a key factor in countries’ vulnerability to external shocks. This paper adopts a detailed relative framework to study the determinants of product-level export variety in a large bilateral panel of developing and developed economies (16,770 country pairs in the period 1988–2014). We find that country pairs characterized...

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  • Estimation of Housing Demand with Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS)

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    - Year 2018

    It has always been important to anticipate the demand for a product. To determine the demand for any product, the parameters such as the economic situation and the demands of the rival products are used generally. Especially in the housing sector, which is the locomotive sector for emerging countries, it is critical to anticipate housing demand and its relationship with economic variables. Because of that, economists, real estate...

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  • Tomasz Korol dr hab. inż.

    Education Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics (2001) University of Applied Sciences Stralsund (1999) Degree / scientific title Habilitation – Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics (2015) Ph.D. – Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics (2004) Employment Gdańsk University of Technology - associate professor (since 2017); assistant professor...

  • Proportion of work permits issued to citizens of Ukraine, Nepal and Belarus in total permits issued in 2008-2018

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    The number of work permits issued increased from 18,000 in 2008 to nearly 329 thousand in 2018, i.e. by 18 times. The largest increases in nominal terms occurred in 2015-2018, noting a change from 66 thousand in 2015, up to 127 thousand in 2016, 236,000 in 2017 and 329 thousand in 2018. So far the most work permits were received by Ukrainian citizens....

  • Pedestrian protection, speed enforcement and road network structure the key action for implementing Poland's Vision Zero

    Since 1991 Poland's road safety has been systematically improving with a 60% reduction in road deaths. Despite the progress Poland continues to be one of the European Union' worst performing countries. The country's main road safety problems remain unchanged: dangerous behaviour of road users, underdeveloped system of road safety management and low quality of road infrastructure. This is why subsequent road safety programmes (implemented...

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  • How does stakeholder pressure influence CSR-practices? A construction industry model based on a European sample

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    • R. Kowalczyk

    - Year 2020

    The stakeholder pressure is one of the most vital powers which determines CSR implementation and can provide organizations with the motivation to adopt corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, as the stakeholder theory claims. The current investigation replications Kowalczyk’s (2019) study, who examined the same structure of relations based on the Polish sample. The essence of this replication is to find out whether CSR-...

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  • Spatial planning on regional level

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    Polish spatial planning results from typical for countries of Central and Eastern Europe transition . They have undergone the transformation from decentralized management system based on the dominance of state to the system of representative democracy, based on self-government administration; also territorial on regional level.

  • Entrepreneurial intentions of students from Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine: The role of perceived entrepreneurial education results

    Our main aim is to establish which factors influence entrepreneurial intentions, with a particular focus on the role of entrepreneurial education and university support in Central and Eastern European countries (CEE). To verify hypotheses quantitative research was conducted using surveys among 2,085 first-year undergraduate students from three technical universities in three countries: Latvia, Poland and Ukraine. The results of...

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  • Ocena wpływu polityki zdrowotnej na jakość życia starzejącego się społeczeństwa w krajach UE

    Starzenie się społeczeństw w Europie powoduje wiele problemów społecznych i ekonomicznych. Polityka zdrowotna i jakość opieki zdrowotnej wpływają na stan zdrowia osób starszych, a tym samym na jakość ich życia. Artykuł jest próbą oceny polityki zdro-wotnej w krajach Unii Europejskiej w kontekście jakości życia. Wykorzystano metodę Data Envelopment Analysis i koncepcję helmsmana, powszechnie stosowane do oceny różnych rodzajów polityki....

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  • Artificial intelligence and productivity: global evidence from AI patent and bibliometric data .

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    In this paper we analyse the relationship between technological innovation in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain and macroeconomic productivity. We embed recently released data on patents and publications related to AI in an augmented model of productivity growth, which we estimate for the OECD countries and compare to an extended sample including non-OECD countries. Our estimates provide evidence in favour of the modern...

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  • Global Digital Technology Convergence: Driving Diffusion via Network Effects

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    - Year 2024

    Since the 1970s, we have witnessed unprecedented diffusion of digital technologies in both speed and geographic coverage. These technologies are pervasive and disruptive, and lead to profound shifts and transformations in societies and economies. Many claim that emerging network externalities are the principal phenomenon driving the process of technology diffusion and determining its in-time dynamics. This book analyses the unique...

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  • Sealing tax collection in Poland and the EU in the years 2008–2018

    The purpose of this study is to present issues related to sealing tax collection system in Poland and European Union countries as well as OECD members in 2008–2018. The article is divided into four parts, which include: introduction, origin of the problem, implemented solutions and conclusions. It presents the results of the conducted analysis including studies of the literature and empirical data (mainly from OECD, GUS—Polish...

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  • Skilled-Unskilled Wage Gap Versus Evolving Trade And Labour Market Structures in the EU

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    - Year 2012

    This paper proposes an alternative approach to the empirical study of wage gap between workers with different educational levels in the enlarged EU. The analysis is based on sectoral database, linking labor market statistics and trade data at the level of 12 manufacturing sectors in a group of 20 European countries: selected New Member States (NMS-5) and former EU-15 economies, in the period 1995-2005. The results of the empirical...

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  • ROAD SAFETY WITHIN THE "INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF TRANSPORT SAFETY"

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    The concept of the “Integrated System of Transport Safety” in Poland is a novel solution, built upon the best practices available from only a handful of countries in the world. In the last few decades, the extent of applying integrated transport safety systems to improve transport safety systems has varied; nevertheless, studying the experience of the safest countries in the world we can say that enormous progress has been achieved...

  • Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Mutual Dependence Assessment of Selected Polyphenols, Organic Acids and Metals in Cool-Climate Wines

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    - MOLECULES - Year 2022

    Polyphenols, organic acids and metal ions are an important group of compounds that affect the human health and quality of food and beverage products, including wines. It is known that a specific correlation between these groups exist. While wines coming from the New World and the Old World countries are extensively studied, wines coming from cool-climate countries are rarely discussed in the literature. One of the goals of this...

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  • Development of banking sectors in Kosovo and Montenegro in the years 2000 - 2010

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    The article presents main aspects of development of banking markets in two Balkan countries - Kosovo and Montenegro. Both of them are charaterised by similar recent history, both in political and economical fields. Their financial sectors have had to be built almost from scretch. The author describes stages of development of competition in the banking sectors, using the following ratios: performace, structure, liquidity. The data...

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  • Within- and between-firm wage inequalities and trade integration in GVC

    This paper examines between- (inter) and within- (intra) firm wage inequality using rich employer-employee data for 12 European countries. We confirm that much overall wage inequality is observed within sectors and within occupations. The share of the within- and between-firm components in overall wage inequality varies across countries. We estimate the link between involvement in global value chains (GVCs) and wages differentiating...

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  • OCENA EFEKTYWNOŚCI DZIAŁALNOŚCI BADAWCZO-ROZWOJOWEJ W KRAJACH OECD

    Działalność badawczo-rozwojowa jest istotną częścią polityki innowacyjnej. Ocenę tej działalności w krajach OECD przeprowadzono wykorzystując metodę DEA. Uwzględniono nakłady: poziom wykształcenia, współpracę nauki z biznesem i poziom wykorzystywania wiedzy w firmach oraz rezultaty: liczba publikacji, patentów i doktoratów oraz eksport sektorów wysokich technologii i indeks Hirsha. Zwrócono uwagę na problem zerowych wag oraz przesunięcia...

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  • Zróżnicowanie działań w zakresie zarządzania wiekiem

    Artykuł dotyczy problematyki zarządzania wiekiem (ZW), a w szczególności zróżnicowania jego wdrażania w krajach o odmiennych uwarunkowaniach związanych z sytuacją osób starszych na rynku pracy to jest w Szwecji, Niemczech i Polsce. W części empirycznej przedstawiono wyniki badań własnych porównując je z wynikami badań przeprowadzonych w ramach Best Agers Lighthouses – Strategic Age Management for SME in The Baltic Sea Region. Pozwoliło...

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  • Knowledge Societies Policy Handbook

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    • R. Baguma
    • J. Á. Carvalho
    • G. Cledou
    • E. Estevez
    • S. Finquelievich
    • T. Janowski
    • N. Lopes
    • J. Millard

    - Year 2016

    The Handbook builds upon existing knowledge and practices to provide policy-makers with an actionable conceptual framework for understanding and assessing the relationships between the Sustainable Development Goals and Knowledge Societies. By identifying gaps as well as strengths, the Handbook will enable countries to more effectively deploy resources and implement appropriate policy measures.

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  • Financial Consequences of the Introduction of the Fit For 55 on the Example of Poland

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    - Year 2023

    In Europe and in Poland, there is a growing conviction that climate action is a necessity. When creating long-term strategies or making current decisions, companies are increasingly taking into account issues related to sustainable development and reducing CO2 emissions. Following the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, countries around the world pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 so that the average temperature...

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  • Opitmalising Human Development Index with sensitivity analysis

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    - Year 2019

    Research background: Composite indicators are commonly used not only to measure economic development, the standard of livin g, competitiveness, fairness, effectiveness but are also willingly implemented in to many different fields. How- ever, it seems that in most cases the variable weig hting procedure is avoided or erroneous since in most cases so-called “wights by belief” are...

  • E-cohousing

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    - Year 2010

    Cohousing, one of the attempts to create housing community, has been successfully practised for many years in many countries. Cohousing creates social bonds. It's a self-creating movement in which everything relies on the community engaged. Oriented ecological cohousing (e-cohousing) teaches responsibility for oneself, the others and the environment.

  • Structural Heterogeneity Between EU15 and 12 New EU Members – the Obstacle to Lisbon Strategy Implementation

    The aim of this article is to identify diversity between the EU-15 and the New Members in their implementation of the Lisbon Strategy in the period 2000-2010. By analyzing a set of structural indicators, we aim to fill a gap in the literature: a lack of publications providing complex evaluation of the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy using measurable indicators. Given their suitability for international comparisons, we use...

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  • Global and regional economic inequality: Methods of measurement and evidences

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    - Year 2019

    The lack of countries’ statistical income data, comparable across countries and years, seems to be the main reason of controversial conjectures concerning global inequality and its evolution over time. In the databases, which purport to collect income data on a worldwide scale, only some summary statistics (quantile income shares, means, Gini indices) are presented. Therefore, the development of efficient methods of extracting...

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  • TRANSFORMATION OF THE BANKING SECTOR AS AN ELEMENT OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE

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    The issue of stability in economy is essential, both in theoretical as well as in practical discussion. It is especially important in an environment of economic transformation. The aim of the article is to assess the economic stability during the transformation of the south-east region of Europe over a period of 19 years (1996 – 2014), and the mutual relation between the economic stability and the transformation process, including...

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  • Modeling of traffic safety indictors on Polish national road network

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    Although decreased from 2001 to 2013, Poland’s road deaths improved at a slower rate than the rest of the EU, leaving Poland as one of the worst road safety performing countries in the EU. The national road network in Poland, despite the dynamic transformation and development, still does not conform to the EU safety standards. Similar situation exists in other EU countries, particularly those in Central and Eastern Europe. Safety...

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  • Global value chains and inward FDI: An empirical investigation of European firms

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    - WORLD ECONOMY - Year 2024

    This paper empirically investigates whether and how the level of GVC integration of a given market may explain the presence of foreign-owned firms. Using firm-level data from 28 European Union countries during the period 2008–2014, we provide evidence that a greater country-sector-level GVC participation, via both backward and forward linkages, exerts a positive effect on a firm's likelihood to receive FDI. These findings appear...

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  • Networks Externalities as Social Phenomenon in the Process ICT Diffusion.

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    This paper is designed to fill the gap in knowledge that we have identified regarding the process of diffusion of information and communication technologies and emerging network effects that significantly enhance spread of these technologies. We contribute to the present state of the art by examining the process of ICT diffusion in 50 countries, which in 2015 achieved highest ICT penetration rates.

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  • Social development and ICT adoption. Recent evidence from developing world

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    - Economics & Sociology - Year 2016

    This paper is designed to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between the process of ICT diffusion and social development across selected low-income and lowermiddle- income countries during the period of 2000 and 2014. It main target it so identify whether in low-income and lower-middle-income economies, ICT development and social development (social empowerment) are correlated.

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  • Structural change in New Member States (1995-2005): shift-share analysis of productivity growth and its determinants

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    - Year 2011

    The chapter focuses on the latest developments in ten New MemberStates (presented vis-à-vis EU-15countries), seen from the perspective of structural change and quality upgrading of their economic structures. In particular, recently released disaggregated labor statistics are used,allowing to analyse the process of labor reallocation and productivitychanges associated with inter-and intra-industrystructural change. Since the mid-1990s...

  • Market Size, Competitiveness and Technological Frontier - the Impact of Trade Integration with the UE on Productivity in Polish Manufacturing Sectors

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    This paper addresses the relationship between growth of relative productivity in Polish manufacturing sectors and forces stemming from trade integration with the EU. We look at the productivity growth from the perspective of relations between Polish manufacturing sectors and the foreign ones, focusing on partner countries from the enlarged EU. Empirical analysis is based on sector level bilateral data concerning both domestic (Polish)...

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  • Stock markets in BRIC: development levels and macroeconomic implications

    The main purpose of the article is the presentation of changes in the stock market development level and their implications for the real economy in BRIC, i.e. Brazil, Russia, India and China. Research method was case studies based on qualitative and quantitative data. First part of the text is devoted to presenting main concepts regarding theoretical linkages between the stock market and real economy. Empirical part begins with...

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  • Assessment of the Feasibility of Energy Transformation Processes in European Union Member States

    The energy transition is now treated in most countries as a necessary condition for their long-term development. The process of energy transformation assumes the simultaneous implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, which are a major challenge for modern economies and introduce significant restrictions in their functioning. Our study aims to group EU member states according to their ability to achieve energy transition...

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  • Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees

    This article investigates a sample of almost nine million workers from 24 European countries in 2014 to conclude how involvement in global value chains (GVCs) affects working conditions. We use employer–employee data from the Structure of Earnings Survey merged with industry-level statistics on GVCs based on the World Input-Output Database. Given the multidimensional nature of the dependent variable, we compare estimates of the...

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  • Data on wages, gender wage gap and global value chains measured on the European Structure of Earnings Survey and World Input-Output Database.

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    This data article describes the data and merging procedure used by Nikulin and Wolszczak-Derlacz (Nikulin and Wolszczak-Derlacz, 2022). 

  • Distribution of population by tenure status, 2015 (% of population)

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    Factor affecting the attractiveness of property market in terms of investment, especially of housing, is the ratio of the number of dwellings owned by the population .In 2015, more than a quarter (26.9%) of the EU population lived in their own housing with credit or mortgages, while over 42% occupied their own residential units without credit or mortgages....

  • Hedging with derivatives - Case of Polish market

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    This paper attempts to show the ways of reaching the competitive advantage by hedging with derivatives in Poland. It shows the results of investigation of 50 Polish companies and comparison to the situation in high developed countries. Through broad review of relevant literature, the authors presented the correlation between hedging and competitive advantage. Moreover, paper shows the reasons, of differences between Poland and...

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  • COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION (COLED)

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    - Year 2020

    Collaborative Learning Environment for Engineering Education is a European project implemented under the Erasmus + program, The main goal of 5 partners from 4 different European countries – Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Romania is to develop an innovative collaborative training approach, encompassing curricula related to the introduction of enterprise automation. Project activities are carried out in the period from Dctober 2018...

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  • Economic growth, structural change and quality upgrading in New Member States

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    - Year 2009

    The purpose of this research is to present the recent developments concerning structural change and productivity growth in New Member States and the role played in such process by country specific factors. We focus on ten countries (NMS-10) which joined the EU in 2004 and analyze productivity dynamics of their labor structures between the years 1995 and 2005 in a comparative setting versus EU-15 economies. NMS-10 have gone through...

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  • Determinants of export diversification: an empirical investigation

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    - RED. ZAGR. ANGIELSKI - Year 2008

    Empirical findings confirm that relatively high specialisation of economic structures tends to be associated with low levels of income per capita, but countries diversify their export structures along their path of growth. However, usually only per capita income, and eventually, country-specific fixed effects are the sole explanatory variables taken into consideration in the estimation of specialisation curves. We extend the analysis...

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  • CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION IN POLAND AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

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    In highly developed countries, research in the field of bankruptcy risk prediction has been conducted for many years. For example, in the United States, which can be considered a pioneering country, the first publications appeared in the early twentieth century. In Poland, due to political and economic reasons, the interest in this issue dates back to the early 1990s. For this reason, this publication attempts to answer the following...

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  • Share of the wage factor in national income – selected aspects

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    - Year 2018

    The aim of this study is to examine changes in the share of the wage factor in national income, in selected EU countries against labour productivity and investment rates reflecting changes in capital-labour relations, indicated by researchers as determinants of change of the share of the wage factor in national income. The scope of the study includes a review of literature devoted to the issue of wage factor share in national income...

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