Die seit etwa einem Jahrzehnt erheblich zunehmende Verbreitung von Informationsund Kommunikationstechnologien (ICT) birgt das Potenzial zur Revolutionierung von Arbeitsmärkten und Beschäftigung, gerade in Ländern mit bisher geringer Durchdringung von wirtschaftlicher Infrastruktur. Bereits...

Despite extensive research, the estimates of changes in employment are heter-ogeneous in different conditions of economic development. In this study, we examined the impact of the instability of economic growth on the elasticity of the labour market in a set of EU27 member states in the period...

This paper attempts to give an economic perspective of the impact of the innovation industries. The estimation method used is that of panel data modelling, based on data from regions from European countries, including countries from Central and Eastern Europe, for which exploratory analysis was...

While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not straightforward or consistent at the country level. There is considerably more variation across developing countries in labor force participation by women than by men. This variation is...

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...

The relationship between female labor force participation and economic development is far more complex than often portrayed in both the academic literature and policy debates. Due to various economic and social factors, such as the pattern of growth, education attainment, and social norms,...

The economic competitiveness of a country is analyzed from several perspectives, including through the labor of the land available, gifted people’s skills and abilities, the level of employment, the standard of living and the level of population welfare. Currently, according to international...

In the twenty-first century ICT has become a necessity in all walks of life primarily for performing various tasks remotely in a transparent, efficient, cost-effective manner with speed and accuracy. ICT is instrumental in transforming various sectors like transportation, banking, manufacturing,...

Model M means being young and being a role model for others in finding innovative employment or creating one's own employment, and thus becoming and remaining an active citizen. In years 2012-2018, IRDO - Institute for the Development of Social Responsibility - implemented the project Model M...

Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...