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Unveiling National Competitiveness: Drivers and Impacts on Productivity

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  • Syle Krasniqi
  • Nagip Skenderi

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Unlike competition at the level of businesses, national competitiveness represents the ability of nations to deliver products and services into international markets to increase the progress and well-being of their residents. Cross-country data on the main drivers is used to estimate competitiveness empirically. The study employs survey data from the World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey (EOS) as well as a useful dataset of indicators from Our World in Data. The study will use econometric models to investigate the most influential factors in national competitiveness. The data was analyzed using panel data and hierarchical regression. The main competitive drivers and our dependent variable of GDP per employed worker among the working-age population are found to have a positive relationship in this study. The results of the study show that microeconomic factors like business sophistication, technological readiness, efficiency, flexibility, and quantity of education have a positive effect on output per employed worker.

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  • Syle Krasniqi & Nagip Skenderi, 2025. "Unveiling National Competitiveness: Drivers and Impacts on Productivity," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 1, pages 3-21.
    • Handle: RePEc:bas:econst:y:2025:i:1:p:3-21
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • N90 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O44 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Environment and Growth
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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