U ovom radu prikazuju se osnovna demografska kretanja u Hrvatskoj i njihove posljedice na ekonomsku aktivnost stanovništva, te se ukazuje na kritično stanje pojedinih dobnih skupina u usporedbi sa stanjem u EU-25. U svim zemljama prisutno je starenje stanovništva. Analiza ukupnog...

At the end of the 20th century, knowledge production has been radically transformed. As knew knowledge economies and US were becoming an increasing threat for EU, the Lisbon Strategy was set to treat the economic problems that EU is facing. This article discusses and evaluates the potential of...

Usporavanje ekonomskog rasta uzrokovano financijskom krizom iz 2008. godine očitovalo se u smanjenoj agregatnoj potražnji te time i smanjenom potrebom za zaposlenima. U ovom radu analizira se utjecaj svjetske financijske krize na potrebu za radom te činjenica kako smanjena ekonomska...

Objective of this paper is to analyse the most recent changes of the interplay between the flexibility of the employment relationship on the one hand, and labour market and social policy, on the other. This article examines the new policy concept of "flexicurity" in view of the emerging...

The findings of the first part of the research study illustrate that during transition period in Croatia huge differences in economic development level of single regions has been noticed. This could also be seen in movements of labour market. Increasing problem of aggregate unemployment from...

The first part of this paper deals with the term of sustainable development as a most popular and important global trend for protecting the worlds eco system. The second part of the paper describes three most important standards for the certification of forest industry that is FCS, PEFC, and ISO...

This paper provides an analysis of corporate income tax (CIT) in Croatia. Given the fact that Croatia implements a consumption-based CIT and a number of tax incentives, the purpose of this paper is to establish the level of effective tax burden on companies in Croatia. In addition to analyzing...

In this paper exchange rate pass-through effect in Croatia is estimated with nonlinear (asymmetric) threshold autoregressive model (TAR). In total 12285 regressions is estimated and a strong case of nonlinearity with single threshold is proven. According to our estimation there is a threshold at...

In this paper we investigate Harrod Balassa Samuelson (HBS) effect in 11 transition countries. A large number of empirical papers based on quite limited datasets has already been published on HBS in Eastern Europe. The major contribution of this paper is the fact that we estimate HBS with NACE6...

The influential and controversial paper by Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) triggered a debate on the effects of public debt on economic growth. Subsequent papers provide more convincing results. However, one of the key assumptions implied in these studies is that lower economic growth is spurred by...