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Development based on knowledge and innovation is one of the main priorities of economic policy in the European Union (EU) countries. It was included in the Europe 2020 strategy, which obliged the EU countries to take measures to strengthen their innovation capacity. The effects of these activities are monitored using indicators to assess the ability of the economy to create and implement innovation and to assess the effects of innovative activity. The article presents an assessment of the degree of achievement of the objectives included in the Europe 2020 strategy for the development based on knowledge and innovation. The analysis used innovation indicators indicating the leaders. The analysis shows the ability to create knowledge and innovation and innovation activity of enterprises and its effects.
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One of the five objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy is to increase expenditure on research and development in Europe to 3% of GDP. It is assumed that the achievement of this goal will be possible primarily through increased funding for innovation and research. This policy aims to contribute to the creation of new jobs, increase competitiveness and economic growth. One of the dimensions of such a strategic aim is the issue of human resources necessary to implement the objectives set out in the document. Analyses indicate that there is a need to increase the appropriate resources needed to achieve the planned objectives. The article presents statistics on the number of researchers and human resources in research and development in the EU countries, pointing to the challenges arising from the content of the Europe 2020 strategy.
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This article analyzes empirically the impact of job search through social networks on wages. Individual data are used from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) and the regression combining and decomposition methods to estimate the effect of social networks for Poland and 19 other countries. In the analyzed cases generally the null hypothesis cannot be rejected of no wage effect of social networks. At the same time the results indicate a positive effect on the wages of private employment agencies and employment agencies operating at universities and schools.
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The article discusses the innovation of social service entities operating in the Member States of the European Union. The characteristics, circumstances and objectives of innovative services in these units are presented. The methods of the work organizing on new solutions to improve service activities are described in this paper. The analysis was based on the study conducted by The Gallup Organization.
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The paper presents the technological changes made to the CSO from the purchase of the first Powers and Hollerith punch-cards machines in the twenties then starting in 1967 computerization and automation of works in the CSO and the Central Statistical Library, to the creation of the CSO information WWW, reporting and geo-statistical portals, development of warehousing and databases in the last years.
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This paper presents the status, structure, and dynamics of occupational diseases, as well as the occurrence of spatial inequalities and concentration of the surveyed phenomenon in Poland. The analysis was conducted by voivodships and groups of diseases, using measures of spatial concentration. The study drew attention to the organizational innovation and technical development of new products and technologies that have an impact on reducing the number of employees in hazardous conditions.
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The author discusses his work in statistics and CSO from September 1955 to the present day. He was mainly involved in the sampling surveys, the quality of statistical data, estimation methods for small areas, poverty research methods, methods of testing consumer prices and methods of statistical analysis. He also worked in the Department of Economic and Statistical Research CSO and Sciences and the Committee on Mathematical Commission of the CSO. For eight years Jan Kordos worked as an expert or consultant to FAO, the World Bank, Eurostat and the United Nations Statistics Division in Ethiopia, the PRC, Nepal, Lithuania and Latvia. In conclusion, he remembers with gratitude several statisticians who had a significant influence on his work in statistics.
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This paper presents the characteristics of Special Economic Zones (SEZ). Law acts were given which govern their operation. Effects of their operation for communities and the economy of the country were described, too. The presented data show the value of such variables as aid targeted to each SEZ, their area, the number of permits to start a business, the amount of capital expenditure and the number of created work places.
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The aim of the article is to present results of a survey of long-term unemployed people in the Sulęcin powiat. The analysis refers to the family, financial, situation of respondents, their activities of daily living, qualifications, activities aimed at professional activation and their relation to activities undertaken by employment offices. In years 2012–2014 the Local Labour Office in Sulęcin has been executor of an innovative project in collaboration with a German company. The authors of this paper took part in this project, realizing stage Analysis and diagnosis of the problem of long-term unemployment in the Sulęcin powiat.
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The author presents supplementary measures of labour market status in Poland. In 2011, Eurostat proposed to use three new measures of describing the situation on the labour market to supplement the classification of the International Labour Organisation. Definitions of these measures are discussed, and the calculations for Poland in the period 2006–2010 are presented. Isolating those on the borderline between work and unemployment, and unemployment and inactivity, allows to better understand changes in the labour market. Looking from the stocks and flows in the labour market, the most important among newly introduced groups are the economically inactive people not looking for work but ready to take it.
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In 2011, the CSO conducted a census of population and housing. For the first time full survey was carried out on the basis of administrative records and information systems operating in Poland. The scope of the full census, which covered only the items included in the administrative system, was completed in a survey based on the 20% random sample of households in the country. The article discusses the basic results of the National Census 2011 developed on the basis of the combined data set of complete and representative surveys. This information relates such demographic and social characteristics of the population and phenomena as gender, age, actual marital status, level of education, disability, source of income, economic activity and international migration. For some issues, a comparison was made with results of previous population and housing census, conducted in 2002.
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The study presents the results of surveying the opinion of career advisors about selected aspects of functioning of the lifelong education in the Wałbrzych sub-region. Ordinal scales and fuzzy numbers were applied in the measurement of the advisors' opinion. Such an approach allowed to take into account the ambiguity and the inaccuracy in the replies provided by the respondents. The analysis of the responses enabled to work out the ranking of the importance of the factors associated with the development of the lifelong education in the Wałbrzych sub-region and to make an appraisal of these factors. The study also identifies the future – according to career advisors – directions of the lifelong education in this sub-region and the scope of trainings which could improve the quality and the effectiveness of the advisory process conducted by career advisors.
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The article presents the results of research on the EU regions (NUTS 2) convergence. The subject of discussion was both sigma and beta convergence (absolute and conditional). The study was conducted among the regions together, and in the isolated regions such as classes according to the level of economic development and innovation. The analysis was performed using the standard deviation of the logarithm of the product (due to the assessment of the absolute convergence) and models for panel data (due to the convergence of both types of evaluation). This allowed not only the comprehensive analysis, but also to control the accuracy of the results.
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Classification is a special general scientific method of scientific research, which allows to establish the properties of the object of study both for the purposes of own research and for the purposes of forming new scientific knowledge. The classification model allows you to approach the object of public administration in a complex and take into account all the properties in further research. Classification as a method of study has a dual meaning for the researcher: from the outside, it is a method that contributes to the study of the system and order; from the internal, it is a technique that determines the completeness and correctness of the conclusions of the study. Classification of economic crimes from the standpoint of public administration will fully assess their properties, which determine the level of threat to national security. Economic crime is not a new phenomenon in Ukraine or in the world. Accordingly, the issue of economic crime has interested scientists for quite some time. The article investigates and systematizes the classification of economic crime in scientific and educational literature. Based on the presented approaches to the classification of economic crimes in scientific, reference and educational literature, the directions of their systematization were determined: by general components of economic activity: by violation of principles of economic activity, by sphere of economic relations. by the spheres of public relations that regulate economic activity, by the content of the committed crime, by the way of committing the crime, by the subjective features. The approaches proposed by scientists to the classification of economic crime are mostly determined by criminal law in force in a country, and therefore do not fully meet the objectives of public administration in the context of combating economic crime as a threat to national security. That is why the author's classification model of economic crime was developed for the purposes of public administration. The presented classification model of economic crime allows to approach economic crime as an object of public administration in a complex and to consider all properties at formation of innovative mechanisms of counteraction.
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In the last few years participants of the banking sector in North Macedonia are facing big competition as a result of the increased innovations between these participants. The only way for banks to stay relevant with their operations is to create a sustainable competitive advantage. For an organization to hold out in a competitive environment, it needs to develop competitive strategies. One of the aspects of creating a competitive advantage in the banking sector is creating digital services. These services have a high impact on the banking sector and enable banks to have a competitive advantage in different manners. In addition to a theoretical approach to creating a competitive advantage in the banking sector, we conducted empirical research on how banks in North Macedonia create competitive advantage by offering digital services. This paper aims to describe the end-users attitude on digital banking services as well as the bank’s strategies on creating a competitive advantage by offering digital banking services.
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Achieving adequate post-retirement income implies diversification of sources of retirement income and an emphasis on funded insurance schemes. The provision in voluntary defined contribution pension funds is considered as a part of the three-pillar pension model in our country. The article examines indicators outlining its role. Рrerequisites are pointed out and specific measures that will enhance the participation of insured persons and their employers on a voluntary pension plan with a view to more fully utilizing its potential to increase the total income replacement ratio are considered.
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Nowadays, in the face of a huge flow of information/misinformation and increasing consumerism, values are being blurred and we are almost not absorbed in our daily lives of genuine universal human values. In this regard, investor-owned firms make a significant effort and devote a significant part of their financial resources for implementing CRM and a loyalty program, through which they seek to create customer value. In my article, I show that there is an organizational form of doing business called cooperative, which emerged in its modern form in 1844. in the city of Rochdale, England, which incorporates in its theoretical, ideal concept both, a substantial part of the genuine universal human values and the core building blocks of CRM and the customer loyalty program.
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Cooperatives as organizations seek their identity after the democratic changes in Bulgaria. Credit cooperatives appear to be underdeveloped compared to similar organizations in other countries. This study examines the theoretical concepts of cooperatives as well as the development of a legal definition of cooperatives. The intersection and the difference between the theoretical understanding of cooperatives and the normative definition of them are derived. The basic principles and values of the cooperative are presented, both historically and in the present moment. Various forms of organizational structure of credit cooperatives have been considered and on this basis the stakeholders in the credit cooperative have been identified.
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