{"title":"Can Fiscal Decentralization Reduce the Public Sector Size in Europe: An Empirical Study","authors":"Silvia Golem, Ivana Žegarac","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.5","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of this paper is to test the Leviathan hypothesis; namely, that fiscal decentralization reduces the size of public sector, using panel data analysis, and employing data for twenty European countries over the period 1999-2016. The Leviathan hypothesis suggests a negative relationship between the public sector size and fiscal decentralization. In the empirical literature, however, there is no clear consensus on whether fiscal decentralization actually reduces the public sector size. Some authors suggest that the effects of fiscal decentralization are quite the opposite – given that the sub-national authorities are better informed about their citizens’ preferences, the decentralized provision of public goods might be more efficient and better tailored to the citizens’ preferences, which can actually increase the local demand for public services, and hence, the size of the public sector. This research finds no evidence that fiscal decentralization has any effect on the size of the government.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134277567","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":"Twin Deficits: Apparition or Reality for Albania","authors":"Nevila Mehmetaj","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.17","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the validity of the Keynesian Twin Deficits hypotheses (TDH) for Albania, using time series data of the span period from 2008 to 2021. The twin deficit hypothesis implies a long-run positive correlation running from the budget deficit to the current account deficit. For this, the Stationarity test, the Johansen co-integration test, the Granger causality, and VEC model techniques are used to examine the long-run and short-run relationship between budget balance, current account deficit, and real growth rate. The empirical findings suggest that the Keynesian twin deficits hypothesis is not valid in the context of the Albanian economy, the budget deficit has a negative relationship to the current account deficit. The policy implication of the results is that prudent management of the fiscal budget of the government may not prove to be a suitable policy instrument for the evaluation of the current account balance improvement.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133744399","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":"Human Resources and Labor Market in Croatia","authors":"Dinka Dedukić","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.239","url":null,"abstract":"At a time of demographic changes and a growing labor shortage, finding employees, and above all competent employees, is the focus of companies. This paper will discuss human resources and the Croatian labor market. The research was conducted in 2018, and the final sample for analysis included 1041 respondents, the results obtained on the research questions are the result of the respondents’ judgment. From the analysis of the conducted research, it emerges that 11% of respondents believe that they are not ready for the Croatian labor market. Respondents cited unfair relations in the labor market (bribery, corruption, employment through connections) as the main reason for insufficient readiness for the Croatian labor market. They cite the lack of application of knowledge in practice as the main disadvantage of higher education, and considering the situation of mismatch between the education system and the labor market, 60% of respondents are aware that they are responsible for their competitiveness in the labor market.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129916312","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}
Jasmina Kurpejović, Mustafa Fetić, S. Kadrić, Ibro Skenderović
{"title":"Role of the Modern Family in Economy","authors":"Jasmina Kurpejović, Mustafa Fetić, S. Kadrić, Ibro Skenderović","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.259","url":null,"abstract":"The modern family has mostly adopted a modern scientific view of the world, is open to society, its members are very active in social and economic life and strive to harmonize personal interests with common interests. The establishment of a marriage union is based on mutual love, the desire for the extension of the species, the upbringing of children and the realization of personal happiness. The characteristics of the modern family are: knowledge of contemporary social reality, knowledge of goals, tasks and principles of education, efforts to ensure the conditions for the child to develop according to his interests, strengths and abilities. The modern family strives to raise an all-round educated and free personality; tries to develop positive character traits in his children; ensure alignment of personal and social interests; strives to equip young people for creative activity; creates the conditions for young people to be able to bring creative dynamism, faith in their own strength, faith in people and life.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129260482","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":"Overview of New Trends in Energetics","authors":"Pavle Jakovac","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.283","url":null,"abstract":"The world today faces major energy problems, and one of the biggest problems is climate change caused by heavy pollution, which threatens the natural environment and man’s current and future well-being. Energy from carbon fossil fuels covers over 80% of the world’s needs in 2020. This is very alarming information, given that fossil fuels cause large emissions of greenhouse gases, which lead to major climate changes, an increase in the average temperature on Earth, and many other negative consequences. To end climate change, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere must stabilize, and to achieve this, global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to zero. The world, therefore, needs an energy transformation. After the Paris climate agreement in 2015, significant changes began to take place in the global energy sector. For this reason, this paper describes changes or new trends that are beginning to change the entire energy sector (e.g. renewable sources, shale gas, the decarbonization process, decentralization and digitalization of the energy sector, flexibility of energy systems, and blockchain technology.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114061441","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":"Education and Internationalization of Higher Education in Disruptive Times","authors":"Ana-Maria Bolborici, Teofan Narcis Axinte","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.155","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, most countries around the world, particularly in Europe, have mainstreamed internationalization at the national and institutional levels. Europe is seen around the world as a best-practice case for internationalization, but nowadays with significant challenges having to regard the new realities: as the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation in Ukraine, but also the massive impact of the refugees who come over the previous waves of immigrants and which can be meet all over Europe. In this study, we present the tendencies of internationalization in higher education. If, until today, the globalization of economies and societies influenced the internationalization of higher education, today the disruptive times determine the enhanced importance of knowledge to find solutions to these issues. This study presents the pillars of the European internationalization strategy, as regards European Higher Education compared with other regions of the world, and gives a few good-practice cases in internationalization.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"298 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117346798","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 Importance of Flexible Employment for Spatial-Functional Links between Settlements","authors":"Vera Gligorijević","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.231","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses urban-rural connections that arise from the geographical approximation of place of residence and place of work (home-based business). The research was conducted on a sample of 310 entrepreneurs who work from home, and the locations of the respondents were classified according to the distance from the central market (Belgrade) into three zones: center, periphery and semi-periphery. The connections between these three zones and their spatial-functional relations were investigated by spatial analysis of the distribution of their main sources of equipment and raw materials, on the one hand, and the distribution of their consumers, on the other. The results showed that the flexibility of the location of work establishes intensive connections between settlements, which implies new forms of interaction between the village and the city and the diversification of the rural economy.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125567627","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":"Consumer Attitudes and Knowledge about the Concept and Signs of Fair Trade","authors":"A. Pap, Tena Radonić","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.249","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of fair trade (Fairtrade) was developed primarily to pay farmers and workers in developing countries fair prices for their work. It is a certification system that aims to ensure that a set of standards in the production and supply of products or ingredients are met. For farmers and workers, the concept of fair trade means workers’ rights, safer working conditions and a fairer wage. For customers, this means high-quality and ethically produced products. By connecting with and helping developing countries in this way, developed countries participate in socially responsible business and the promotion of sustainable development. The concept of fair trade aims to improve the existence, strengthen the organization of producers, raise consumer awareness of various negative effects on producers of international trade, and protect basic human rights by promoting social justice, preserving the environment and economic security. But the very notion of fair trade in the world is still not sufficiently recognizable. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current theoretical knowledge about the concept, meaning and purpose of fair trade and previous research related to the recognizability and understanding of this concept. Also, this paper aims to determine the attitudes and knowledge of consumers about the fair trade label in Croatia through the implementation of primary research to find out how much the population (re) knows about the fair trade system and what is the level of trust in the fair trade label. Based on the results of the research, the paper will provide recommendations for actions aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge about fair trade.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"120 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131806570","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}
Alex Sander Pires, Carla Dolezel Trindade, Simão Aznar Filho
{"title":"Be Free to Communicate on Social Media, but Respect the Values of Education!","authors":"Alex Sander Pires, Carla Dolezel Trindade, Simão Aznar Filho","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.171","url":null,"abstract":"The technological revolution and the search for the “new post-pandemic normality” require a re-reading of the freedoms of communication (freedom of expression and freedom of information), in order to conceive, in the face of the change of the paradigm of digital actors to three elements (individual, state and company), a new system that brings together the public and the particular which can be called collective and private, capable of forming awareness for peace in the face of the guarantee of the right to non-discrimination, centered on the balance between the legal and the civic possible through the binomial instruction-respect, that is, the individual recognition of respect for human dignity as guided by human rights in the perspective of fundamental freedoms in the posting and sharing of information on social networks, as oriented by the education values.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116267759","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":"Development of Human Capital Quality Based on Quantitative Indicators","authors":"Dana Jašková","doi":"10.31410/eman.2022.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/eman.2022.145","url":null,"abstract":"Human capital represents the knowledge, skills and characteristics of an individual that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic well-being. Measuring, analyzing and subsequently developing human capital is a prerequisite for the region’s prosperity. Human capital is a set of human abilities and skills that has a direct impact on the potential of social activity. Measuring and monitoring human capital development is an important part of regional policy. This process is complex because human capital is a qualitative characteristic of man. The links, correlations and causal links between the different sets of human resources data are identified. The assessment of human capital levels must be based on many quantitative indicators. This paper evaluates the development of human capital in Slovakia using an aggregated, composite indicator. The composite indicator is constructed using selected weighted indicators. By applying more complex multidimensional statistical methods, the assessed indicators are aggregated into a composite indicator, and its development is then evaluated.","PeriodicalId":422603,"journal":{"name":"International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115503814","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}