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In literature one can find the learning-by-exporting hypothesis (LBE), according to which exporters should increase their productivity due to experience gained from international activity. However, when researching into Polish exporters, this hypothesis has not yet been sufficiently proven. The aim of this article is to present potential reasons for elusiveness of the LBE effect in empirical analyses based on Polish manufacturing enterprises. Both, mechanisms questioning the LBE effect and factors limiting its scope, were considered. Based on conducted analyses it has been concluded that the main factors rendering difficult in observation of LBE are: quick diffusion of all innovational solutions, which restrains enterprises from investing, and relatively small share of ex-porters with little experience, among whom the effect is the strongest.
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Today the media is often seen as the 'fourth estate' of the Russian Federation's system, which already marks its special position in society. To answer the question if the media is really responsible for aggression, its texts were analysed in order to underline some aspects of language manipulation that must come together to create violence and aggression. The modern journalistic texts are characterized by continually growing trend to intensify negative emotions. Moreover, the media language violence has certain potential effects on the individual and is able to affect everybody. The authoress examines the productivity of various argot's words in the journalistic texts.
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The aim of the paper is to analyse the development of efficiency and productivity in the provision of public welfare services of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) over the period 1997-2006. Efficiency scores are estimated applying data envelopment analysis (DEA), which is particularly suitable for the public services. Then, Malmquist index is calculated to separate productivity and efficiency changes. In conclusion, the CEECs are found to be relatively efficient in the provision of welfare services. Nevertheless, the efficiency scores indicate the existence of potential input level saving.
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The Jews living in Walbrzych after World War II actively joined in the town's economy. Jewish women were the first to organize public transport in the town, while the men were among the first to set up cooperatives. They took jobs in Walbrzych coal mines, coking plants and steelworks. Some of them took local government jobs. Many helped set up trading enterprises, engaged in crafts, acted in civic and state organizations. Jewish doctors accounted for the majority of local health service staff, and many Jews worked in the courts, with some also working for the security service and the police. The number of Jews working in Walbrzych institutions, cooperatives and factories, and, consequently, the ratio of working Jews to all the Jewish people in the town and to Poles living and working there kept falling. This was due to a succession of tides of emigration as well as attrition, i.e., deaths or the abandonment of Jewish identity by some Jews. Documents from the late 1960s do not point to an important role of Walbrzych's Jews in the town's economy. In post-war Walbrzych, which was a centre of the mining, coking and steel industry, the Jews escaped proletarianization, despite the actions of the Polish Workers' Party/ Polish United Workers' Party. They preferred to stay in their own milieu, most often in cooperatives. Together with the changes pressed by the authorities, such as socialization, nationalization and centralization of all areas of the economy, also the Jewish cooperatives came under the control of the socialist state.
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Increase in the unit efficiency of plant and animal production depends mostly on the implementation of biological progress in farms. Plant and animal breeding companies of the Agricultural Property Agency play a particularly significant role in this process in the Polish agriculture. These companies have a considerable breeding and economic potential based on extended and modernised material and technical resources, as well as a stable, though not too high yet, profit. Despite a very low profitability of breeding activities, they still have a considerable potential to provide agriculture with high quality carriers of biological progress. However, the analysis shows that no progress has been made between 1990 and 2008 in terms of productivity of the basic crops, except for sugar beet. The progress in the livestock productivity is also insignificant. The distance between the Polish agriculture and the agriculture of the EU countries compared in the analysed period in terms of plant and animal productivity not only has not diminished, but has even slightly grown. It is mainly due to the fact that the number of farms with development potential in the Polish agriculture is very small (about 10% of total farms). Most of them already achieve high values of plant and animal productivity indicators, which are only slightly lower than the results generated in the compared EU Member States. Nevertheless, a vast majority of farms in our country (90%) are farms without development potential whose main objective is to survive.
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The efficiency of the private sector in Poland is higher than that of publicly-owned enterprises. During the years covered by the study (1995-2004), the gap grew steadily and in 2004 the productivity in the private sector was nearly twice higher. Almost 80% of the national gross production is the result of the activity of only about 65% of the employed population.The private sector and the whole Polish economy with it, will develop through a combination of two ways: improvement of the economic efficiency and an absolute increase in financial outlays - mainly investment - on the existing enterprises and on setting up new ones. It is therefore an intensive path of development which should predominate over the earlier, extensive model. The privatisation process should be continued and should include most businesses which operate according to market principles and whose main activities include material production or intangible services. Special attention should be paid to so-called 'difficult' branches, such as coal mining and railways.
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The article describes a complex typology of relations between GDP and its sources: Total factor productivity (TFP) and Total Input Factor (TIF). We analyse how possible changes in TFP and TIF affect GDP development. We give each situation a specific name that clearly explains it. Based on the analysis, the so-called dynamic parameters of intensity and extensity are introduced. The parameters quantify the share of the change in intensive and extensive factors in GDP change. The article further compares our typology with previous ones and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen parameters.
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This paper analyzes the problems of formation and use of labour potential of the company. Analysis of human resources of any company is the assessment of provision of the company and its divisions by personnel as well as labour movement assessment. The main part of this process is the analysis of composition and structure of personnel, security of enterprise workers, administrative management, educational background, qualifications, professional qualifications, as well as changes in company’s personnel. The paper presents the benefits of using a valuation coefficient technique for assessing employment potential of the company, which in essence is a hybrid of cost and benefit approaches to assessment.
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Small and medium sized businesses consider marketing and outlet processes to be a critical factor in gaining higher competitiveness. Increased usage of information and communication technologies and studies which validate a positive influence of these technologies on economic growth creates a question of effective management of investments into such projects. Hypotheses regarding the influence of chosen electronic services for outlet channels on chosen economic indicators are discussed in this article. The research was carried out using a questionnaire survey of European initiative e-Business w@tch. The results, on the base of decision trees, confirmed positive influence of chosen solutions and point to the fact that investments into these projects have to be directed at some of the high-effective tools, not at complex solutions.
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The goal is to bring into line the opinion of the scientific auditorium with help of political-economy concept to explain that knowledge economy is not only one of the number of managerial ,,bestsellers” for the recent times, but the serious trend and base for genesis of the social and economic order of the global world in 21st century, the knowledge society. Knowledge economy as a concept is spread crossing the all areas. As its first disseminators were personalities, "gurus” from management world, it seems quite natural, that its components and proceedings adopts enterprises and uses them in their own practices. But that occurs messy and very often by their experience with trial-and-error method. In case of failure, it is the knowledge management considered as ,,metaphysical” and lost interest. It seems that knowledge management is only the matter of IT and education. Here is focused to explain knowledge economy from the point-of-view of political science and economy. The first man who defined the concept knowledge society was P. F. Drucker in his work The Age of Discontinuity. But the basic political-economy work defining and analysing aspects of formation and characteristics of post-capitalist society became the book of P. F. Drucker Post-capitalist Society, 1992. He analyses not only concepts and characteristics of future new society, but he reflect by their interpreting from present policy aspects and characteristics of social constitution.
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The article presents the main trends in Polish agriculture after 1989 and analyses the historical, social and economic background of the transformation. An evaluation of the changes and accomplishment of the initial goals is conducted, with a focus on selected aspects, including, among others, technological modernisation, productivity growth, increased efficiency and competitiveness, changes in the structure of farms, and the improvement of living conditions in the Polish countryside. A comparison of the socio-economic situation of Polish agriculture at the beginning of the transformation with the state of Polish agriculture just prior to EU accession illustrates how farms have responded to the changes implemented. Poland having implemented the Common Agricultural Policy programs for 2007–2013, the country’s agriculture certainly accelerated its development after becoming an EU member. However, not all regions of the country have managed to benefit equally from EU support. Some remain underfunded and their potential has not been fully realised, which unfavorably affects the competitiveness of Polish agriculture as the world struggles with a food crisis.
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The article presents an alternative method to growth accounting. It makes it possible to express the effect of change in the quantity of inputs as well as the effect of the productivity of inputs (i.e. technological changes) on the change of GDP for all possible typologies of input/output changes. Dynamic parameters of intensity and extensity could be delivered as the output of the method. The first one captured the effect of change in the summary productivity factors, while the latter captures changes in the input quantity. The dynamic parameters were calculated for the development of GDP of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in the period 1990 – 2014.The results confirm more intensive Slovak development in the given period that is manifested in reaching of Czech value of GDP per capita expressed in purchasing power parity (PPS).
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