Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204058 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
wiiw Research Report No. 286
Publisher: 
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper discusses the evolution of competitiveness, industrial and trade specialization of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). It is shown that the paths taken by the different CEECs have been quite diverse and we attempt to show that a combination of a catching-up plus trade specialization model is required to understand the patterns of specialization emerging in Central and Eastern Europe. We start with a description of the main features of macro-structural change and move on to discuss patterns of productivity and wage catching-up across industries which give rise to interesting movements in comparative cost dynamics. This is complemented with an analysis of patterns of trade specialization, including measures of product quality upgrading. We add information about the industrial allocation of FDI and comparative educational attainment as well as on the evolution of labour demand by skill groups. All the above yields an interesting (and at times unexpected) picture of the evolving division of labour in an enlarged Europe.
Subjects: 
structural change
international specialization
catching-up
convergence
Central and Eastern Europe
EU enlargement
international integration and labour markets
JEL: 
F02
F14
F21
L6
O57
P52
Document Type: 
Research Report

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