This paper analyzes the manufacturing sector of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic between 1993 and 2001 and provides a set of stylized facts concerning the changes occurred in the skill composition of the workforce and in the earning structure by skills on one hand, and in trade flows and foreign presence through direct investment (FDI) on the other. All the three countries have experienced sharp increases in earning inequality, which have interested almost all manufacturing industries; relative skilled-employment has, instead, decreased in almost all Hungarian and Czech industrial branches, while showing the opposite trend in the Polish counterparts. At the same time, the three countries have reoriented and expanded their trade flows, and modified the merchandise composition of both exports and imports in favour of high-tech and capital-intensive sectors and against more traditional industries. Foreign Direct Investment has acquired progressively more importance in the three economies and the high-tech sector -as well as the chemicals and the machineries- have significantly gained relevance on total stocks. Correlation analysis comes in favour of a prevalently vertical nature of multinationals enterprises; moreover, trade flows are in general negatively correlated with relative wages and employment, whereas the sign of the relation between FDI and earning inequality is clearly positive only in Poland.
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Paper provided by CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy in its series CESPRI Working Papers with number
160.
Length: 36 pages Date of creation: Jul 2004 Date of revision:
Jul 2004 Handle: RePEc:cri:cespri:wp160
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