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GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES: THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
PublicationThe objective of this study is to test empirically the relationship between structural changes (changes in gross value added and employment) and economic growth. We used a panel Granger-causality analysis based on annual data for eight transition countries, covering the period 1995–2011. The main finding is that the causality relations analysed are heterogeneous processes and are identified more often...
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Global Competitiveness and Economic Growth: A One-Way or Two-Way Relationship?
PublicationThe Global Competitiveness Index is treated as a standard to measure the competitiveness of countries. Leaders look at it to make policy and resource allocation decisions because global competitiveness is expected to be related to economic growth. However, studies which analyze the empirical relationship between these two economic categories are very rare. It is still an open question in the literature whether economic growth can...
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Enhancing women’s engagement in economic activities through information and communication technology deployment: evidence from Central–Eastern European countries
PublicationThis study takes a macro perspective to examine the associations between the economic deployment of information and communication technology (ICT), women’s labor market participation, and economic growth in Central–Eastern European countries between 1990 and 2017. We use data extracted from World Bank Development Indicators, World Development Reports, and the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database. Our methodological framework...
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Linkages between services and manufacturing as a new channel for GVC growth: evidence from CEE countries
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to use a panel Granger causality test to verify the hypothesis of the existence of a causal relationship between forward linkages from domestic services to manufacturing and a country’s participation and position in GVCs in selected central and eastern European economies – the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia – for the period 2000-2014. Our results show that the Baltic...
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Digitalization Process and Its Impact on Economic Growth A Panel Data Study for Developing Countries
PublicationThis book analyses the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on economic development. It contains theoretical and empirical studies, including panel studies on various issues facing developing countries, such as education, corruption, economic growth, government expenditure, financial inclusion, foreign direct investment, infrastructure, economic and social welfare, and inequality. Each chapter offers a well-conceived...
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Aleksandra Parteka dr hab. inż.
PeopleAbout me: I am an associate professor and head of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology (GdanskTech, Poland). I got my MSc degree in Economics from Gdansk University of Technology (2003) and Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche (2005), as well as MA degree in Contemporary European Studies from Sussex University (2006, with distinction). I received my PhD in Economics...
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Fertility rebound and economic growth. New evidence for 18 countries over the period 1970-2011.
PublicationLong-run impact of economic growth on fertility trends is ambiguous and sensitive for in-time variations. Noticeably, over last decades, economic growth has led in many countries to significant falls in total fertility rates. However, recently, in high-income economies a kind of ‘fertility rebound’ emerged (Goldstein, 2009; Luci and Thevenon, 2011; Day, 2012), which supports the hypothesis that reversal trends in total fertility...
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Economic growth, structural change and quality upgrading in New Member States
PublicationThe 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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Is Germany a Hub of ‘Factory Europe’ for CEE Countries?
PublicationThe goal of the paper is to decompose gross exports and imports to/from Germany for seven selected economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia for 2000 and 2014, in order to identify the role of Germany in absorbing, reflecting and redirecting CEE trade. The authors use a gross trade decomposition proposed by Bonin and Mancini (2017), which is the extended...
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Changes in Manufacturing Industries- an Empirical Verifiction of the Kaldor-Verdoorn Laws
PublicationThis paper focus on showing the importance of manufacturing industry for the growth of selected european countries from a kaldorian perspective. the author discusses and testes two (the first and the second) kaldor-verdoorn laws, which state that manufacturing is the engine of growth (the first law) and that exist positive relation between labour productivity and output in manufacturing industries because of increasing returns...
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Towards Changes of Macro-Economic Structures in Middle Eastern Countries. Empirical Evidence for 1970–2018
PublicationMiddle East countries share a wide bundle of specific structural economic features and one of the latest is a high dependency of these economies on fossil fuels, which is quantitatively demonstrated through the share of oil and gas revenues in total export, but also in gross domestic product composition. This high economic dependency on natural resources on one hand has recently generated a material wealth of Middle Eastern countries...
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Impact of the Manufacturing Sector on the Export Competitiveness of European Countries – a Spatial Panel Analysis
PublicationThe purpose of this paper is to determine how changes in the export competitiveness of the EU economy (measured by exports and net exports) depend on changes in the competitiveness of processing industries, on the basis of manufacturing data from 19 EU countries over years 1995-2009 and using a spatial panel data model. The determinants of export competitiveness are selected in the light of predictions from international trade...
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How to define and measure informal employment in CEE countries - the case of Poland
PublicationThe study of informal employment is still associated with several obstacles, from the scope of definition, through measurement methods, to policy recommendations. This article aims to revise the existing methodological frames in order to point out how to improve the study of informal employment in CEE countries. The case of Poland serves to examine whether the common definitions and measurement methods are suitable for an inclusive...
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ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE THEORIES _AP
e-Learning CoursesECONOMIC GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE THEORIES Course run in summer semester 2023/2024
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Economic growth and role of medium and low tech industries versus high tech industries
PublicationRozdział w monografii stanowiący kompleksową analizę wpływu oraz roli sektora niskich oraz średnich technologii we wzroście gospodarczym. Rola tych 2 sektorów jest przeciwstawiona roli sektora wysokich technologii we wzroście gospodarczym. Autorzy przeprowadzają analizę dla krajów OECD.
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ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION – VERIFYING THE U-FEMINIZATION HYPOTHESIS. NEW EVIDENCE FOR 162 COUNTRIES OVER THE PERIOD 1990-2012.
PublicationThe paper contributes by providing new insights into relationship between female labor force and economic growth in 162 world countries over the period 1990-2012. It is anticipated uncovering U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and economic growth. The analysis is run in two different perspectives – first the relationship is examined for sample encompassing 162 countries; and second – the evidence is...
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Economic growth dynamics across countries
PublicationRozdział w monografii stanowi analizę statystyczną dynamiki wzrostu gospodarczego w krajach świata, w latach 1989-2010. Dodatkowo autorka analizuje relacje statystyczne zachodzące pomiędzy stopą wzrostu gospodarczego, a wybranymi wskaźnikami rozwoju społecznego.
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Intellectual brain drain and economic growth in developing countries: A theoretical solution of strategic compensation
PublicationBrain drain is a real problem for the developing countries like Pakistan. It not only impacts theworkforce, but its effect eventually translates to economic growth as well. The most severe form of braindrain is intellectual as top tier skilled employees’ move out of the country. This study explores the issue ofintellectual brain drain in Pakistan moreover analyzes its severity to the economic growth. Finally,...
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New patterns in the position of CEE countries in global value chains: functional specialisation approach
PublicationResearch background: High servitisation of manufacturing makes it impossible to separate services from manufactured goods properly, which implies difficulties in the assessment of the position of the country on the smile curve, i.e. in the proper assignment of products or services to one of the industrial process steps: pre-production, pure fabrication or post-production services. Therefore, we propose to use the business functions...
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Does technology matter for economic development? Empirical evidence for Latin American Countries
PublicationThe spread of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has been recognized worldwide. ICTs are broadly perceived as tools facilitating economic growth and development, especially in backward countries. They are easy and cheap to adopt, require minimum skills for effective use, and bring opportunities for disadvantaged societies. They enable education, knowledge dissemination and sharing, and processing and storing...
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Gross Exports Versus Value-Added Exports: Determinants and Policy Implications for Manufacturing Sectors in Selected CEE Countries
PublicationThis article assesses the impact of selected determinants on both value-added exports and gross exports for seven CEE economies, based on thirteen manufacturing subsectors for the years 1995–2011. The results show a decrease in domestic value-added, especially in high-tech industries. The impact of the determinants, except for vertical specialization, is similar for exports in value-added and in gross terms. The results indicate...
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Trade differentiation and the characteristics of new imported and exported products - international panel data analysis
PublicationDrawing on o large panel of international economies we have shown how the set of imported and exported products evolves in economic growth process. Strong activity at the extensive margin, manifested through the rise in the number of active export and import lines, is typical for early stages of development. Trade diversification tendency, typical for a predominant mass of observations in our panel, is associated with changes in...
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Digital transformation and economic growth - DESI improvement and implementation
PublicationThe paper aims to improve the methodology of the Digital Economic and Society Index (DESI), the European Commission’s newest index to assess the development of the digital economy. In particular, we investigate whether methodological changes to the structure of DESI improve its ability to capture the digital transformation of EU economies. Using the sensitivity- based analysis, we check whether the selection of weights of individual...
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Enhancing Economic Development Through ICT-Based Governance: Evidence for Developing Countries
Publicationhis shows novel empirical evidence on how e-government solutions enhance the emergence of inclusive societies, increase institutional quality, and through that channels dynamize economic development in developing countries. With this aim we examine digital development inequalities adopting 2 core ICT indicators: mobile cellular telephony and Internet users; and gross per capita income and Human Development Index to show the level...
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Piotr Paradowski dr
PeopleDr Piotr Paradowski's areas of expertise in quantitative social science methods include truncated and censored models, quantile regressions, survival analysis, panel data models, discrete regressions and qualitative choice models, instrumental variable estimation, and hierarchical modeling. He is also an expert in statistical matching and statistical methods to handle missing data. In addition, he conducts research on income and...
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The influence of climate change on the life insurance in the EU: A panel data approach
PublicationThe financial sector, as one of the most sensitive economic sectors, is alert to all trends and changes in the environment. The aim of the article is to study the impact of climate change on the life insurance market using panel data from 28 countries of the European Union (EU) for the last 9 years. This study is based on a panel model, where the amount of premiums under life insurance contracts is defined as a function of the...
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Linkages between services and manufacturing as a new channel for GVC development: Evidence from CEE countries
PublicationThe goal of the paper is to verify a causal relationship between forward linkages from domestic services to manufacturing and the participation/position of a country in global value chains (GVCs) in selected Central and Eastern European economies. We observed a strong polarisation pattern: the Baltic countries along with the Czech Republic strengthen their positions and participation in GVCs by having a strong relationship between...
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Economic Situation in Balkan Countries in the First Decade of 21st Century
PublicationThe recent economic crisis affected most of the countries in the world to a greater or lesser extent, including small economies sector. Small economies are a distinctive group of countries distinguished by particular qualities. They are dependent on trade exchange or international investment stream, and both their aggregate demand and supply, and price level depend on the development of the big economies dynamics. This is the reason...
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ICT Diffusion Trajectories and Economic Development: Empirical Evidence for 46 Developing Countries
PublicationIn economic theory, technology is treated as a crucial factor contributing significantly to economic development. Seminal works of Schumpeter (Theory of economic development. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 1934, J Econ Hist 7:149–159, 1947), Baumol (Am Econ Rev 76:1072–1084, 1986), Gerschenkron (Economic backwardness in economic perspective. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA, 1962) or Abramovitz (J Econ Hist 46(2):385–406, 1986)...
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Socio-economic exclusion as a hindrance of economic development. A comparative study for European countries
PublicationThe paper consists of multidimentional analysis of social and economic exclusions which are treated as main barriers for economic development. This complex study covers all European countries. The timespan is set for 2004-2011
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Export diversification and economic development: A dynamic spatial data analysis
PublicationThis 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 level)....
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The role of trade in intra industry productivity growth - the case of old and new European Union countries.
PublicationThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU countries in the period of rapid East–West integration (1995–2007). Shift-share analysis is used to show that changes in value added per hour worked in these countries appear to be mainly due to positive developments (rising productivity) within single industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards...
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Banking stability during the economic transformation process in selected countries of the Western Balkans
PublicationEconomic transformation is still an ongoing process in many European countries. Despite common economic roots, the current economic situations are developing differently in different countries. This article will consider the process of economic transformation in terms of the banking sector. It aims to assess the level of banking stability throughout the transformation process in the Western Balkan region, and to assess the determinates...
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Export diversification and economic development: a dynamic spatial data analysis
PublicationThis 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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Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska
PeopleHead of the Scientific and Technical Information Services at the Gdansk University of Technology Library and the Leader of the Open Science Competence Center. She is also a Plenipotentiary of the Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology for open science. She is a PhD Candidate. Her main areas of research and interests include research productivity, motivation, management of HEs, Open Access, Open Research Data, information...
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Digital Gaps and Economic Inequalities in MENA Countries: An Empirical Investigation
PublicationThis research contributes to the present state of the art by examining changes in cross-country inequalities in digital technologies deployment and economic performance. Our empirical target builds on the hypothesis that rapid global diffusion of digital technologies unequivocally leads to gradual eradication of cross-country digital gaps and cross-country inequalities in terms of deployment of ICT; the technology convergence occurs....
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Competitiveness of the Visegrad Countries - Paths for Competitiveness Growth
PublicationThe article includes two objectives: 1) to determine competitiveness of V4 countries in terms of 12 pillars of competitiveness used by The Global Competitiveness Report of the WEF, 2) to propose taxonomic method to appoint a path of competitiveness growth of economies.
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The impact of gender wage gap on sectoral economic growth – cross-country approach
PublicationWe propose an empirical analysis of testing the relationship between gender wage gap and economic growth. The study takes into account 12 manufacturing sectors in 18 OECD countries for the period between 1970 and 2005.We use industrial statistics (EU KLEMS, 2008) on female and male wages that distinguish between wages paid to different groups of workers classified according to skill level: high, medium and low. We estimate augmented...
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Does offshoring affect industry employment? Evidence from a wide European panel countries
Publicationis paper contributes to the literature on the possible impact of international outsourcing on domestic labour markets. We focus on off shoring-employment relationship. Th e analysis is performed for a wide European panel, composed of 27 EU countries and 13 manufacturing sectors, observed in the period 1995-2009. Th anks to the use of input-output tables from the WIOD project, we measure the intensity of off shoring in the sectors,...
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ICT-driven economic and financial development. Analyses of European countries
PublicationICT-Driven Economic and Financial Development: Analyses of European Countries demonstrates the effects of ICT diffusion on economic, social and financial development by examining their impact on the structure and dynamics of national economies. It provides the insight into shifts observed in labour markets, international trade activities productivity factors, education and use of innovative financial products. It combines empirical...
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Industry 4.0 Implementation Challenges in Manufacturing Industries: an Interpretive Structural Modelling Approach
PublicationFor the last few years, the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, has been a hot topic among academics. Industry 4.0 literature involves researches presenting studies related to its different aspects including challenges, opportunities, implementation and adoption. However, a detailed study of challenges and barriers towards the Industry 4.0 implementation in manufacturing industries is missing. Hence, this paper...
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Correlation between the Level of Economic Growth and Foreign Trade: The Case of the V4 Countries
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Are women importanf for economic development? Women`s participation in the labor market and their contribution to economic growth in 83 countries.
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia ilościowe zależności między partycypacją kobiet w rynku pracy a wzrostem i rozwojem gospodarczym. Analiza została przeprowadzona dla 83 krajów świata w latach 1990-2011.
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The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment
PublicationThree decades after the fall of the Berlin wall and one and a half decades after the Big Bang enlargement of the European Union (2004-2007), we revisit contrasting narratives about the benefit of both free trade and the EU enlargement for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. We distinguish old, pre-2004 EU countries from CEE countries that joined the EU in 2004-2007, as well as from the CEE countries that have not become...
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Price bubbles in commodity market – A single time series and panel data analysis
PublicationThis paper examines thirty-five commodities, grouped into three market sectors (energy, metals, agriculture & livestock) in terms of the occurrence of price bubbles. The study was based on monthly data for each commodity separately and, in a panel approach, for selected sectors and for all commodities combined. The GSADF test and its version for panel data – panel GSADF – were used to identify bubbles. The beginning and end of...
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Intra-provincial inequalities and economic growth in China
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Analysis of the impact of socio-economic development on road safety based on the example of Baltic Sea Region countries
PublicationBaltic Sea Region (BSR) is a specific region of Europe, bringing together countries with different levels of socio-economic development. The main common point is territorial access to the Baltic Sea and the importance of maritime transport in the transportation of goods. The region consists of 9 countries, including Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Russia (more specifically, Kaliningrad...
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European Economic Development 2023
e-Learning CoursesMain aim of the subject is to transfer knowledge on theoretical and empirical aspects of economic development in Europe. Key topics: •concepts of economic development, alternative measures of development •factors of economic growth and development (‘determinants of growth’) •history of economic development in Europe •cross-country and cross-regional comparisons •sources: where to find information and data needed for empirical...
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Qualitative changes in CEECs trade specialization (1995-2005) - the implications for economic growth process
PublicationCelem opracowania jest przedstawienie zmian jakościowych w strukturze eksportu w krajach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w latach 1995-2005. Jako miernik jakościowy eksportu wykorzystano indeks Hausmann et al (2007). Wyniki badań wskazują, różnice w relatywnych poziomach PKB per capita względem krajów UE-15 są znacznie większe niz różnice w jakościowej strukturze eksportu pomiędzy Nowymi Krajami Członkowskimi a krajami ''Pięnastki''....
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Analytical Methods for Causality Evaluation of Photonic Materials
PublicationWe comprehensively review several general methods and analytical tools used for causality evaluation of photonic materials. Our objective is to call to mind and then formulate, on a mathematically rigorous basis, a set of theorems which can answer the question whether a considered material model is causal or not. For this purpose, a set of various distributional theorems presented in literature is collected as the distributional...