Contributors

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Introductory Remarks

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1. INSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF THE POLISH AND UKRAINIAN ECONOMIES (Andrzej NOWOSAD, Umit TURANLI, Rafał WISŁA)

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Poland and Ukraine yesterday and today

1.3. The subject of this research and its specificity: Poland -- Ukraine

1.4. Powerful institutions: oligarchy and network.

1.5. Summary

CHAPTER 2. OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATIONS IN POLAND AND UKRAINE (Svitlana CHUGAIEVSKA, Rafał WISŁA, Andrzej NOWOSAD)

2.1. Introduction

2.2 Privatization

2.2.1. Privatization in Poland

2.2.2. Privatization in Ukraine

2.3. The capital market -- a mechanism to support ownership transformation

2.3.1. The Polish capital market

2.3.2. The Ukrainian capital market

2.4. Summary

CHAPTER 3. STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE POLISH AND UKRAINIAN ECONOMIES AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF OTHER CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (Rafał WISŁA, Svitlana CHUGAIEVSKA, Andrzej NOWOSAD, Umit TURANLI)

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Share of the industrial sector in GDP

3.3. GDP share of the agricultural sector

3.3.1. Total investment expenditure

3.3.2. R&D expenditure

3.3.3. National defense spending

3.4. Summary

CHAPTER 4. THE DEMOGRAPHIC POTENTIAL OF POLISH VOIVODESHIPS AND UKRAINIAN OBLASTS (Nataliia CHUGAIEVSKA, Oleksii KELEBAJ, Tomasz TOKARSKI)

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Administrative divisions of Poland and Ukraine

4.3. The demographic potential of the Polish voivodeships

4.4. Demographic potential of the Ukrainian oblasts

4.5. Summary

CHAPTER 5 -- THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF POLISH VOIVODESHIPS AND UKRAINIAN OBLASTS (Nataliia CHUGAIEVSKA, Oleksii KELEBAJ, Tomasz TOKARSKI)

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Economic potential of Polish voivodeships

5.3. Economic potential of Ukrainian oblasts

5.4. Summary

CHAPTER 6. PRODUCT MARKET STRUCTURES (Katarzyna FILIPOWICZ, Tomasz TOKARSKI, Titus FERENC)

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Sector structure of the product market in Poland

6.2.1. Added value in agriculture

6.2.2. Added value in industry

6.2.3. Value added in construction

6.2.4. Added value in services

6.3. Sector structure of the product market in Ukraine

6.3.1. Added value in agriculture

6.3.2. Added value in industry

6.3.3. Added value in construction

6.3.4. Added value in services

6.4. Summary

CHAPTER 7. DETERMINANTS OF THE SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF LABOR MARKETS IN POLAND AND UKRAINE (Paweł DYKAS, Tomasz MISIAK, Tomasz TOKARSKI)

7.1. Introduction

7.2. The labor market in Poland and Ukraine in the XXI century

7.3. Differentiation in labor productivity, wages and unemployment rates

7.3.1. Differentiation in labor productivity, wages and unemployment rates in Poland

7.3.2. Differentiation in labor productivity, wages and unemployment rates in Ukraine

7.4. Determinants of the increase in unemployment rates and gross real wages -- a theoretical approach and empirical verification

7.5. Summary

CHAPTER 8. SIMULATIONS OF VOIVODESHIP AND OBLAST DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORIES. AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE GRAVITY GROWTH MODEL (Svitlana CHUGAIEVSKA, Katarzyna FILIPOWICZ, Tomasz TOKARSKI, Rafał WISŁA)

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Gravitational growth model

8.3. The diversity of the capital-labor ratio, gravitational effects and investment rates

8.3.1. Poland

8.3.2. Ukraine

8.4. Calibration of model parameters

8.5. Simulation of labor efficiency trajectories

8.5.1. Poland

8.5.2. Ukraine

8.6. Annex

CHAPTER 9. THE SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF MIGRATION IN POLAND AND UKRAINE (Nataliia CHUGAIEVSKA, Daniela SZCZEPANIAK)

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Spatial diversity of migration inflows and outflows rates and their determinants in Poland 201

9.2.1. Inflow rates

9.2.2. Drainage rates

9.2.3. Net inflow rates

9.2.4. Relative wages

9.2.5. Relative unemployment rates

9.3. A spatial differentiation of migration inflow and outflow rates and their determinants in Ukraine

9.3.1. Inflow rates

9.3.2. Outflow rates

9.3.3. Net inflow rates

9.3.4. Relative wages

9.3.5. Relative unemployment rates

9.4. A statistical analysis of the impact of relative wages and relative unemployment rates on migration flows

9.5. Summary

CHAPTER 10. -- SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF POLISH VOIVODESHIPS AND UKRAINIAN OBLASTS (Monika BOLIŃSKA, Olesia CHORNENKA)

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Taxonomic methods employed

10.3. Spatial differentiation of taxonomic indicators of economic development of voivodeships

10.4. Spatial differentiation of taxonomic indicators of economic development of oblasts

10.5. Spatial differentiation of taxonomic indicators of economic development of Polish voivodeships and Ukrainian oblasts

10.6. Summary

A FEW WORDS TO FINISH (Tomasz TOKARSKI, Andrzej NOWOSAD, Rafał WISŁA)

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