Labour Productivity in a Central and Eastern European Secondary City – Evidence from Regional and Firm-Level Data-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Labour Productivity in a Central and Eastern European Secondary City – Evidence from Regional and Firm-Level Data

Published:2022-12-01 Issue:1 Volume:22 Page:14-33
ISSN:2068-7583
Container-title:Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies
language:en
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Author:

Egyed Ildikó¹,Zsibók Zsuzsanna²

Affiliation:

1. 1 PhD, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2. 2 PhD, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Abstract Our article examines the changes in the economic position of a Hungarian secondary city, Pécs, and its region in the post-crisis period from a labour productivity perspective. Our aim is to contrast results based on data of the city’s largest local firms from the Orbis Europe enterprise database with the results based on the EuroStat regional database. We assess local trends in a sectoral disaggregation and focus on the period between the two crises. Our results suggest that Pécs and its region face a persistent difficulty in attracting external resources and in retaining and generating endogenous resources.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Environmental Engineering

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/auseur-2022-0007

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