TY - BOOK AU - Sebestyén, Tamás AU - Braun, Erik AU - Elekes, Zoltán TI - Resolving the complexity puzzle: economic complexity and positions in global value chains jointly explain economic development T3 - Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography ; 24.01. PB - Utrecht University CY - Utrecht PY - 2024 SP - 38 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34486770 ID - 34486770 AB - It is now well established that complex economies with sophisticated export specialization ex- perience higher income and economic growth levels. A group of countries, including those in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), have pursued a distinctive and arguably successful economic development strategy, focusing on foreign direct investment and embedding in global value chains (GVCs) in manufacturing. However, while these countries now appear to have a high degree of economic sophistication after considerable modernization, they also face significant challenges in catching up with more developed economies in terms of prosperity. In this paper, we propose that considering the coordination of local and non-local capabilities in the same theoretical framework and empirical application helps to resolve this apparent complexity puzzle. Using a panel dataset covering 67 territories and 45 sectors from 1995 to 2018, we first show that measuring countries’ economic complexity based on value-added trade adjusts the resulting country ranking and reduces the measured complexity gap favoring CEE countries. Second, we argue that value-added-based economic complexity needs to be complemented by measures of positions in GVCs to account for access to non-local capabilities. Our results from benchmark regression analyses show that economic complexity and positions in GVCs together offer improved predictive power for income and economic growth. Finally, we show that GVC positions in services are particularly important for economic development but that a related pattern of diversification, whereby CEE countries and factory economies more broadly strengthen their GVC positions in manufacturing activities, is likely to limit their future opportunities for functional upgrading and for achieving highly complex economic structures that would be rooted in local capabilities. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Elekes, Zoltán TI - Hogyan törjünk ki az alacsony fizetés csapdájából? PY - 2023 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34485102 ID - 34485102 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Henning, Martin AU - Eriksson, Rikard AU - Garefelt, Petrus AU - Martin, Hanna AU - Elekes, Zoltán TI - Job relatedness, local skill coherence and economic performance. A job postings approach PY - 2023 PG - 31 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34471106 ID - 34471106 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Elekes, Zoltán AU - Baranowska-Rataj, A AU - Eriksson, R TI - Regional diversification and labour market upgrading. local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment TS - local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment JF - CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF REGIONS ECONOMY AND SOCIETY J2 - CAMB J REG ECON SOC VL - 16 PY - 2023 IS - 3 SP - 417 EP - 430 PG - 14 SN - 1752-1378 DO - 10.1093/cjres/rsad016 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34090941 ID - 34090941 AB - This article investigates how the evolution of local labour market structure enables or constrains workers as regards escaping low-wage jobs. Drawing on the network-based approach of evolutionary economic geography, we employ a detailed individual-level panel dataset to construct skill-relatedness networks for 72 functional labour market regions in Sweden. Subsequent fixed-effect panel regressions indicate that increasing density of skill-related high-income jobs within a region is conducive to low-wage workers moving to better-paid jobs, hence facilitating labour market upgrading through diversification. While metropolitan regions offer a premium for this relationship, it also holds for smaller regions, and across various worker characteristics. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Elekes, Zoltán AU - Baranowska-Rataj, A AU - Eriksson, R TI - Regional diversification and labour market upgrading. Local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment TS - Local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment PY - 2023 PG - 43 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34039919 ID - 34039919 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Elekes, Zoltán AU - Tóth, Gergő AU - Eriksson, R TI - Robust labour-flow networks of industries make resilient regions PY - 2023 PG - 41 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33808770 ID - 33808770 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Elekes, Zoltán AU - Tóth, Gergő TI - Miért visel meg egyes régiókat jobban egy válság, míg másokat kevésbé? Íme egy magyarázat PY - 2023 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33645514 ID - 33645514 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Baranowska-Rataj, A AU - Elekes, Zoltán AU - Eriksson, R TI - Escaping from Low-Wage Employment. The Role of Co-worker Networks TS - The Role of Co-worker Networks JF - RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY J2 - RES SOC STRAT MOBIL VL - 83 PY - 2023 PG - 9 SN - 0276-5624 DO - 10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100747 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33282626 ID - 33282626 N1 - Open access LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Czaller, László AU - Elekes, Zoltán AU - Lengyel, Balázs ED - Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes ED - Kónya, István ED - Krekó, Judit TI - Who work in jobs suitable for teleworking? T2 - The Hungarian Labour Market, 2020 PB - Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CY - Budapest T3 - The Hungarian Labour Market, ISSN 1785-8062 PY - 2022 SP - 147 EP - 156 PG - 10 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33669662 ID - 33669662 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Samu, Flóra AU - Czaller, László AU - Tóth, Gergő AU - Elekes, Zoltán AU - Lengyel, Balázs ED - Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes ED - Lengyel, Balázs TI - A munkaerőpiac méretének szerepe a munkanélküliek preferált foglalkozásokban való elhelyezkedésében T2 - Munkaerőpiaci tükör, 2021 PB - Közgazdaság- és Regionális Tudományi Kutatóközpont CY - Budapest T3 - Munkaerőpiaci Tükör, ISSN 1586-460X PY - 2022 SP - 181 EP - 182 PG - 2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33572194 ID - 33572194 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER -