Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...

The patterns and mechanisms of job creation in business services are investigated in this article by considering the role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an empirical test is carried out with parallel analyses on a...

The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro-econometric analysis is based on a large international panel data set from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. Employing flexible semi-parametric methods the generalised...

Seit 1. Mai 2011 ist der österreichische Arbeitsmarkt für acht der 2004 zur EU beigetretenen Staaten - Tschechien, Slowakei, Ungarn, Slowenien, Polen, Estland, Lettland und Litauen - geöffnet. In Band 12 der Sozialpolitischen Studienreihe werden zwei Studien behandelt, die ein umfassendes...