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Changes in Industrial Competitiveness as a Factor of Integration: Identifying Challenges of the Enlarged Single European Market

About the Project

Structure of the Project

The division of the project into sections and work packages reflects the scope of research described above (see picture).

Section I will include two work packages. In the first, we will classify industries with respect to competitiveness, identifying both levels and trends with respect to competitiveness (e.g., high, low; growing, declining). We will take into consideration the distorting effects of unbalanced and incomplete liberalisation in the candidate countries on changes in competitiveness. We will also (in WP 2) consider the effects of the new (adjusted to the EU rules) state policy on changes in competitiveness. This part of the project will be of a comparative nature where we will consider relevant policy developments in the candidate countries in the light of policies implemented in the EU and its member countries.

In Section II we will evaluate the effects of changes in industrial competitiveness on the restructuring and specialisation of the economies of the countries under consideration (WP 3) as well as on labour market developments (WP 4). In this section we will evaluate changes in capacity in view of competitiveness (both levels and trends), taking into special consideration levels and changes in employment and work force skills in selected industries.

In the third section we will study the directions of changes in the specialisation of the candidate countries within the Single Market in the light of changes in their competitiveness on those markets (WP 5), as well as the role of multinational corporations in bringing about these changes (WP6).

The fourth and final section will be devoted to two issues: how changes in industrial structure and trade patterns brought about by changes in competitiveness impact national economic growth, and the identification of challenges resulting from EU enlargement. We will examine both the effects of integration into the EU of competitive industries in the candidate countries and those of the marginalisation of a portion of the production capacity and societies of those countries. On the basis of this and all the preceding analysis we will formulate recommendations concerning the economic policy of the EU (WP 8).

The structure presented above is reflected in the project's division into workpackages:

  1. Competitive advantages and disadvantages of industries in candidate countries; Influence of governmental policy
    1. Classification of industries of candidate countries: identification of competitive and non-competitive industries (WP 1)
    2. Impact of policy on changes in manufacturing competitiveness. (WP 2)
  2. Effects of changes in competitiveness on the restructuring of the candidate countries' economies
    1. Industrial restructuring and changes in specialisation as outcomes of changes in competitiveness (WP 3)
    2. Labour market developments (WP 4)
  3. Changes in the specialisation within EU as an effect of candidate countries integration; Role of multinational corporations
    1. Changes in specialisation within the EU market as an effect of candidate countries integration (WP 5)
    2. Foreign and domestic firms as catalysts in changes in competitiveness (WP 6)
  4. Competitiveness, structural change, trade and growth. Challenges facing the EU as a result of changes in the competitiveness of the candidate countries;
    1. Structural change, real exchange rate and economic growth (WP 7)
    2. Challenges facing the EU as a result of changes in the competitiveness of the candidate countries: economic policy recommendations (WP 8)




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