New Articles – Economics

Differences and Similarities in Patterns of Ageing Society in the European Union

Denisa Kočanová, Viliam Kováč, Vitaliy Serzhanov, Ján Buleca

Population ageing is a demographic issue that emphasises the need to be interested in the lives of the most vulnerable population group: the elderly population. The paper investigates the ageing process and their relations among the European Union member countries from 2009 to 2019. These countries are assessed and dispersed to the appropriate clusters according to several indicators related to the areas that affect the lives of the elderly population: namely, the health status, the labour…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2023-1-003 more

INFLATION PERSISTENCE AND UNIT ROOT TESTS IN THE EURO AREA COUNTRIES

Lenka Vyrostková, Rajmund Mirdala

Persistence is one of the main characteristics of inflation. One of the definitions of persistent inflation is, that it is the rate at which inflation reaches equilibrium after a certain macroeconomic shock. If the inflation persistence is high, the response to inflation shocks is longlasting and difficult for the central bank to control. Conversely, if the country’s inflation persistence is low, the central bank can keep the inflation rate in line with the inflation target. The recent economic…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2022-4-001 more

FACTORS OF GENDER PAY GAP IN THE HIGHEST WAGES OF EMPLOYEES IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Viera Pacáková, Viera Labudová, Ľubica Sipková

The article contains the results of empirical analysis of data on one percent of employees with the highest salaries in the Slovak Republic in 2020. The starting point for the analysis there is 11,570 anonymized individual values of average gross monthly wage and also personal data of the employees whose wage exceeded the 99th percentile of the sample survey The Informational System on Labour Costs, implemented in the Slovak Republic since 1992 by the company Trexima Bratislava. The aim of the…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2022-4-002 more

CORE INDUSTRY AGGLOMERATION OF DIGITAL ECONOMY AND GREEN TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

Ping Li, Huiying Fu, Yueyao Li

With the advent of the information age and the development of network technology, the digital economy with digital knowledge and information as crucial production factors has become the core driving force for high-quality green economic and social development. This paper took the exploration of the role of the digital economy as an engine for regional green and high-quality development as the purpose of the study, incorporates the core industry agglomeration of the digital economy into the…

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MINSKY MEETS PORTER

Burak Erkut

Hyman P. Minsky and Michael E. Porter have developed theories of economic development independently from each other, both being influenced by Joseph A. Schumpeter in different ways. In this contribution, the author focuses on understanding the similarities and differences between these two approaches based on their epistemological, ontological and ethicalpolitical perspectives, also by identifying how they are related to each other in a particular type of economic development named as ‘money…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2022-4-004 more