POSITION IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS: THE IMPACT ON WAGES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Sabina Szymczak (), Aleksandra Parteka and Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
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Sabina Szymczak: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

No 53, GUT FME Working Paper Series A from Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between the relative position of industries in Global Value Chains and wages in ten Central and Eastern European countries. We combine GVC measures of global import intensity of production, upstreamness and the length of the value chain with micro-data on workers. We find that the wages of CEEC workers are higher when their industry is at the beginning of the chain or at the end than in the middle. Secondly, wage changes depend on the interplay between upstreamness and GVC intensity. In sectors close to final demand, greater production fragmentation is associated with lower wages.

Keywords: wage; GVC; upstreamness; production fragmentation; CEEC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01, Revised 2022-01
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