{"title":"On modelling of development of tourism in selected European countries","authors":"Eva Litavcová, Petra Vašaničová","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.95","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding tourism development over time requires analysing time series of available data and assessing relevant information and essential tourism indicators. The aim of this paper is modelling of the tourism development of the 24 European Union countries using Box-Jenkins methodology to capture and explain the patterns and the determinants of tourism in the European Union countries. The variable “Total Nights Spent at Tourist Accommodation Establishments” per month was considered, and was recorded for the period from January 2002 to September 2018 by the Eurostat database, since this is one of the variables that best expresses effective demand. Results of founded 24 SARIMA models reported in the overview table can be considered as preliminary analysis for next examining using ARFIMA models with long memory, artificial neural networks, or models based on Engle's methodology. For the best six models, ex-ante analysis of accuracy is done. The best model among them is the model for Germany.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130448726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivation and job satisfaction of humanitarian logisticians","authors":"Jana Abikova","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.1","url":null,"abstract":"Humanitarian workers operate in complex environments with various challenges and demanding working conditions. These challenges put aid workers in a range of risks and under the pressure. However, human resources are crucial for success of humanitarian operations in general. At the same time, each humanitarian operation is reliant on logistics and logistics activities are always connected with logistic staff. Understanding what motivates logisticians to join the humanitarian sector is essential information for humanitarian organizations and for recruiters within. Also, knowing which factors influence motivation and job satisfaction of humanitarian logisticians could help the organizations to struggle with the extremely turnover they have to face. Up to this moment, needed skills and the performance of humanitarian logisticians were examined. Also, the motivators of humanitarian workers are covered in previous research. Therefore, the additional aim of this research is to extend the knowledge about the human resources in humanitarian sector as well.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128765505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The model of efficient wages as a factor of sustainable reproduction of rural personnel","authors":"V. Sharapova, N. Sharapova, I. Borisov","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.135","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of reproduction of personnel in rural areas is quite relevant for the Russian economy. The dynamics of reproduction is influenced by many socio-economic factors, however, a special role among them is occupied by the differentiation in the level of wages between urban and rural territories. In addition, the low level of wages in the countryside does not allow creating conditions for the development of market infrastructure, which further reduces the attractiveness of such areas for living. The purpose of this article is to develop a model for determining the effective level of wages, ensuring staff retention in the village and sustainable reproduction of the labor force. Methodologically, the model of effective wages is based on models of migration flows of the population, including the Todaro model, the model of individual investment in human capital and individual labour supply. The result of the model will be a mechanism for determining the critical level of wages on the basis of a multilateral model of reproduction of personnel, taking into account the behaviour of workers, employers, educational institutions and public policy.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125284858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wage expensiveness of the Czech state-funded institutions","authors":"J. Vodáková","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.162","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the paper is to examine a recent development of wage expensiveness within a sample of the Czech state-funded institutions. The paper firstly describes relevant wage expensiveness ratios and their construction. Further it concentrates on an analysis of wage expensiveness development in the middle-term time period, i.e. from 2015 to 2018 and its comparison with wage productivity ratio and average wage. The paper loosely follows-up our previous research that mapped the situation in financial reporting of the Czech state-funded institutions and its relevance in relation to financial management requirements. At this paper we selected other suitable wage expensiveness ratio, i.e. wage expensiveness computed from revenues, and evaluated its development trends within a sample of selected state-funded institutions rendering health-care services to public. As main data sources, the Ministry of finance of the Czech Republic databases, annual reports, relating regulations and scientific papers were used. Acquired data suggest average wages growth accompanied by parallel increase of wage expensiveness within the examined sample. This trend may be perceived debatably however, more precise conclusion would require an analysis of further factors affecting environment of health-care services.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131220862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreign banks in CEE’s economies. A panel data analysis","authors":"D. Badulescu, R. Simuț, Radu Alin Morutan","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.5","url":null,"abstract":"Although foreign banks operate in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries since the early 1990s, the consequences of the 2007-2010 economic crisis and the uneven economic development in these countries over the last years have determined researchers to reconsider the importance, the risks and effects of foreign banks’ presence in the host economies. The positive consequences, such as supplementary capital, corporate practices, efficient allocation of resources, competition, and shock resilience are strongly contradicted by foreign banks’ selectivity and preference for large and consolidated clients, the centralization of decisionmaking, reduced lending during crises, worsening pro-cyclical phenomena, opaque practices in the repatriation of profits etc. Our paper examines the relationship between foreign banks’ assets (as share of foreign banks’ assets in total bank assets) and several macroeconomic indicators (change of real GDP, inflation and unemployment), and, respectively, bank performance indicators (i.e. interest rates on bank credit to the private sector, and bank cost to income ratio), for CEE countries, from 1996 to 2013. For each indicator, we estimate a panel data model. The results show that the foreign bank assets are positively and significantly associated only with the rate of change of real GDP, meanwhile with the other two macroeconomic indicators (i.e. inflation and unemployment), the foreign bank assets are negatively and statistically significant correlated. Moreover, we found that foreign bank assets are not correlated with the bank cost/income ratio, but negatively correlated with interest rates on bank credit to the private sector. The results show that, during the financial crisis, an increase in the assets of foreign banks reduced inflation, unemployment rate and interest rate, but less significantly than during a typical, non-crisis period.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115039872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Health Expenditures and Health Resources on Health Status in the European Union Member States","authors":"P. Jindrová","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.60","url":null,"abstract":"Health of population is not only valuable in and of itself, but contributes to economic growth and social inclusion and so health status monitoring is important for EU policies. The health status of the population cannot be captured by a single metric and it is determined by many factors inside and outside of the health systems. The aim of this article is quantification of causal relationships among health status, health expenditures and health care resources in the European Union Member States. Health status and its determinants are multidimensional categories that are specified by a number of selected indicators accessible from Eurostat, OECD or WHO databases. Multidimensional statistical methods namely rank correlation, factor analysis, cluster analysis and linear ordering of countries using synthetic variables will be used to achieve the goal of the article. The results of the analysis also reveal some of the causes of inequalities in health status in the EU Member States.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124681588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business and Consumer Surveys: the Weighting Scheme","authors":"V. Ptáčková, Lubomír Štěpánek, V. Hanzal","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.123","url":null,"abstract":"The development of national economies is a popular theme nowadays. A great number of analysts focus on surveys which have an ability to predict a business cycle or the gross domestic product (GDP). Business and consumer surveys are ones of these popular instruments. These surveys have many advantages – results are published monthly, and they can identify the turning points in the economy. Of course, there are some areas left for improvement – for example, many analysts discuss the weighting scheme, a system of weights indicating an importance of individual parts of the surveys. Thanks to harmonisation, the weighting scheme is the same for all European countries. Unfortunately for some of them, it is not the best option because the weights do not suit the structure of the economy a very well. In this article, the authors want to construct a new weighting system for the calculation of the composite confidence indicator. Using this modified method, we could obtain a better prediction of the GDP, and could be better prepared for a potential future economic crisis.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122718992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The analysis of Employee Benefits for IT jobs","authors":"Daniela Černá, O. Němec","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.27","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to analyse the structure of employee benefits as a part of total reward with the focus on the IT specialists’ jobs. As the Czech labour market deals with the lowest unemployment rate among the EU countries and lacks thousands of IT specialists, companies have to focus on the employee motivation and stimulation, on the Employer brand improvements and proper communication. Employee benefits may be considered a differentiator on the job market as a complementary part of the attraction strategy, as well as a retention tool for internal talents. Based on the quantitative analysis of questionnaires responded by 35 Czech companies from different sectors (realized in 2017-2018) authors discuss the flexibility of employee benefits offer, prevalence of particular benefits and availability for individual groups of employees. It was found that although companies more often focus at the flexibility of both financial and non-financial benefits which may positively influence attraction and retention strategy, still do not actively differentiate between employee benefits offer for IT and non-IT jobs and probably do not utilize the available potential.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125157284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate Social Responsibility and the SMEs – Case Study from the South Bohemian Region","authors":"M. Slabá","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.140","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate Social Responsibility plays a significant role in business in term of competitiveness, innovation, and development for a long time. The importance of Corporate Social Responsibility is emphasized by the European Union in the European sustainable development strategy. Most of the researches focus on Corporate Social Responsibility of large enterprises. However, the backbone of the Czech and European economy is made up of small and mediumsized enterprises. Even though, that SMEs has been started to implement Corporate Social Responsibility activities in their business, there are not many researches on the Corporate Social Responsibility activities of SMEs. Therefore, the author’s research focuses on the Corporate Social Responsibility activities of SMEs in the South Bohemian Region. The paper analysis the types of Corporate Social Responsibility activities using by SMEs in the South Bohemian Region. The author’s research tries to reveal whether there are statistically significant differences in access to Corporate Social Responsibility activities of companies based on their size or other parameters.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125167149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation strategy and its imapact on company growth","authors":"M. Špaček","doi":"10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.152","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the effects which might have innovation strategy on company growth. The paper also confronts business strategy with innovation strategy and indicates certain disparity between these types of strategies. It indicates that despite having viable business strategy in place, some companies are still puzzled with the incorporation of innovation and innovation processes into corporate strategy. The paper examines how intensively the innovation influence both Real Company Growth (RGR) and Sustainable Company Growth (SGR). By means of Case Study it is exemplified how the company can manage its RGR and SGR through process and organizational innovation on one hand and product and marketing innovation on the other hand. It was found out that the former boosts company growth especially through reduction of the costs and facilitation of processes while the latter drives the company growth preferably through sales increase. Both approaches may complement on each other and generate synergic effects. Both types of growth are compared with the development of real GDP which was the benchmark for the assessment of the innovation process effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":235267,"journal":{"name":"International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125241280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}