Cristina Lincaru

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection

Lack of access to basic energy services, known as energy poverty, remains felt in the country, with seasonal changes and an economic divide. The frameworks to measure energy poverty differ spatially and temporally, with climate change and behavioral culture being the essential influencing factors. This paper is focused on heating and cooling energy...

Renewable sources of energy production are some of the main targets today to protect the environment through reduced fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Alongside wind, solar, marine, biomass and nuclear sources, hydropower is among the oldest but still not fully explored renewable energy sources. Compared with other sources like wind and so...

In a globally competitive economy, business integrity emerges as key to building a leadership role and attracting and retaining employees in a trusted environment for business. The literature argues positive relationships between team trust and performance, sales, profits, employee turnover, leader empowering behavior, job crafting, work engagement...

The concepts of internet banking and mobile banking have led to changes in people’s financial behavior in terms of earning, consuming, and saving. This new concept, which entered the market quite recently, was used at the beginning of the new digital technology in various types of activities, banking operations, and nowadays these services are used...

Renewable energy is a global priority, as it addresses the goals of carbon neutrality and plays an important role in reshaping energy mixes. The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources (solar, photovoltaic, geothermal, hydropower, wind, and biomass) must be performed without negatively affecting economic growth or our quality of life. R...

Economic resilience and sustainable finance are two interlinked and crucial issues for development and convergence in Romania’s counties increasing cohesion. These issues can contribute to sustainable and balanced growth of local and regional economies and to the reduction of inequalities in regional development. Economic resilience in counties ref...

This paper analyzed the responses of 242 civil servants collected during a survey for public authorities personnel with management or executive responsibilities. The survey focused on the perception of respondents regarding the key competencies and the utility of the sustainability development expert occupation (SDE). Based on the assumption that t...

This chapter aims to offer scholars and practitioners critical arguments on the global ethics as a potentially integrative paradigm of sustainable development for the new economy. The research provides a conceptual and philosophical critical analysis of the new sustainable economy and global ethics and concludes that global ethics is the new concep...

Mechanics and its derivates domains Mecatronics, Robotics, Integronics & Adaptronics are highly dynamic domains that suffer radical transformations reflected by co-occurrence with 8 terms of Industry 4.0, selected from Europe 2021–2027 Strategical Cycle: Industry 4.0/5.0, Big Data, Augmented Reality, AI, IoT, Computer Science, Virtual Reality, Bloc...

The fussy and blurred Industry 4.0. technological content raises difficulties for the human capital development mainly in the education and labour market. We propose a hierarchical tree map that make a monophyletic evolutionary description of the most relevant domains of Industry 4.0. The domains most similar by the records registered in Clarivate...

The actual challenge is the digital transformation and the higher education holds the leading role to digital adoption and new skills providing. Based on the challenges highlighted by COVID19 pandemic, the new business models are shaped considering the digital transformation and the future jobs creation. They are requiring human resources with spec...

Against the background of multiple and simultaneous global socio-economic shocks, coupled with digital transformation and the green transition, regional resilience triggers new structural transformations. The more complex processes that need to be addressed now require the usage of complex integrated tools. The novelty of the integrated approach is...

The regional development and potential are influenced by various factors. There are regions with different levels of drawback generated by factors such as existing economic development, demography, multiculturalism, education etc. The main concern the researchers had was identifying the development gaps and the economic convergence ways at regional...

Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 act as shocks on regional labor markets and regional economies. The presence of a digital economy has high spillover effects on regional development, job creation, economic resilience, and sustainability; furthermore, it valuates eco-innovation and the clean economy. We believe that...

The digital transformation of businesses is a prerequisite and an active factor in building a digital future for Romania. This new era offers an excellent opportunity for a new start for SMEs, especially small ones. The goal of the EU's Digital Compass from its Digital Decade is to reach a significant degree of digital engagement, ensuring inclusio...

If contractual work (waged) is traditional employment, “the new work” is represented by entrepreneurship and self-employment and to a certain extent by various forms of “subsistence economy”. We develop an instrument to understand how new work shapes the short-term labor market's sustainable functioning. The dynamic interaction between labor market...

The target for 2030 of reaching a 32% share of renewable energy in the gross final energy consumption can be achieved by speeding up the transformation pending the implementation of knowledge transfer (KT) policies that foster regional cooperation for the cost-effective development of renewables. The research purpose is the analysis of important fa...

World Tourism Organisation, declares the Tour Operators as tourism engine of strategically importance to support jobs and inclusive growth in all regions. Tour operators emerges following the 2008 crises, as a global job engine. Its atypical profile of highest human capital concentrator in tourism, attract and retain talents, works digital with a h...

Leadership of the future in an AI world is dependent on talents. Ethics, Cohesion, CSR, Brain drain and Talents literature points towards the ethical leadership. In a global world in deficit for talents, ethics could be the solution. Our research question is the job tenure a potential measure of ethical behaviour in a firm in view to attract and ma...

We check on the short term if self-employment in Romania influences unemployment and vice versa. Age, education and gender characteristics treat both variables, and self-employment considers both cases with and without employees. The objective is to look at the job creation and unemployment reduction in quarterly variation during the 1999Q1–2017Q3...

The rhythm in which the knowledge economy, the pace in which the future rushes in the economy, in the social environment, in the everyday life of the individual, forces the human limits, subjecting the organizations and individuals to the social stress of inadequacy. The accelerate dynamics requested by the knowledge economy and digitization spread...

The last years were of profound transformation in public services that knows more or less the challenge from the private sector. A second dimension of competitiveness for the public services staring from 2007 was the free access of the citizens to at least education and health services in European Union. The paper aims to show the evolution of the...

Disruptive innovations generated by digital technologies push the public services to digital transformation in order to become not only a problems solver for community, but a real social, economic and environmental development engine. With all significant progress, the use of e-Government services in Romania remains the lowest in the EU; high quali...

Abstract: Romania’s transition towards the green economy is strongly heterogeneously in both terms: sectoral and spatial, with low performance of economy in innovation and eco-innovation. From the 81 sectors analysed more than a half needs to diminish a significant gap in productivities, while more than ¼ requests with high priority to be restructu...

The Sectoral Pattern of Growth at county level in Romania may be characterised by “decomposing output growth per worker within sectoral changes and between sectoral changes”. The Job Generation and Growth Decomposition Tool, or JoGGs (Step 3&5) (World Bank, 2011 & Guide), is applied to ten economic sectors (NACE Rev.2) in all 42 counties (NUTS3 lev...

The New Economy of Geography explains how production is heterogeneously distributed in space, reflecting the tendency of agglomeration in highly populated locations (countries, regions, and localities) while also increasing the income in the same areas of success. This chapter is a piece in the line of research focused on the employment growth anal...

The smart, sustainable and inclusive growth adopted by Europe 2020 demands new types of information as it is the land use data as an indicator of the land (a primary production factor) - the building block of any economy. Our method is based the article of Salvati & Carlucci (2014) regarding the Urban Growth and Land Use Structure, we develop an Ex...

Public Employment Services (PES) have to "react efficiently and effectively to unceasingly changing public and political demand" and also to cope successfully to the growing "competitive environment's "demand. (Public Employment Services' Contribution to EU 2020: PES 2020 Strategy Output Paper, 2013). One direction that allow PES to "enhancing labo...

Cohesion policy is an important pillar of the Architecture Europe 2020 Strategy: “Cohesion Policy is the EU’s main investment policy. It targets all regions and cities in the European Union in order to support job creation, business competitiveness, economic growth, sustainable development, and improve citizens’ quality of life."(Europe 2020 Strate...

In this article are illustrated the regional differences on the issues and characteristics of registered unemployment as an operational example for a socio-economic indicator, relevant for the cohesion policy. Regional differences are illustrated by “Choropleth Map” of registered unemployment classified by natural intervals Jenks at local administr...

Identifying locations that are part of the LAU2 two types of clusters HH and LL indicates similarities at the level of the population establishing residence (including external migration) in another locality, using spatial statistical analysis method Local Indicators of Spatial Association LISA (Anselin 1995, 1996) and calculated in GeoDA Software....

The late regional practice implementation requested the addition of an intermediate category in between urban and rural area: periurban area. In our paper we use the classification units at the lower LAU level (LAU level 2, formerly NUTS level 5) consists of municipalities or equivalent units in the 27 EU Member States. The model proposed is build...

Independent Component Analysis ICA is "a method for finding underlying factors or components from multivariate (multidimensional) statistical data". Considering that the specific of this method is "that it looks for components that are both statistically independent and Non-Gaussian, we try to apply ICA method on labour market data. Following the m...

Romanian economic activity has lately showed toward a decreasing tendency, due to the unsteadiness of macroeconomic policies, to the maintaining of arrears in the economy, and to the lack of willingness both in trying to eliminate the non-efficient enterprises from economy, and in restructuring of public sector major organizations.

Although major economy's development along the 20-th century is mostly a result of industrialization, especially as an effect of industry expansion and of trading manufactured products, it is obviously that its impact over the human development is not limited to good production: through human and organizational resources, manufacturing has become t...

In view to define the need for change in the knowledge economy perspective an important place is occupied by the key competences development. In the new global context, with the digital and knowledge economy emergence”company expects current and prospective employees to bring this set of skills to the workplace”.(a- Learning for the 21s...

In this paper we try to find empirical evidence regarding the region diversity by firm characteristics, using spatial data from Tempo (INS Romania database) at NUTS 1, 2 and 3 region level for the period 1997-2008. Using instruments of statistical analysis of spatial data (Anselin, Varga) we try to sketch the spatial pattern of firm agglomerations...

The paper presents some necessary, but not sufficient aspects, introduced first by the Europe 2020 Strategy. We designed scenarios of the economic structure of Romania using 2008 data as a fixed base and the comparable Database EIMBussiness_PolicyResearch2009. On the basis of input variables, the increase in value added and the growth of productivi...

As a benefit of the recent data improvement regarding the data on job vacancies in Romania becomes an opportunity the examination on short term shifts (between 2005-2008) of the labor markets at NUTS 1 (4 Macroregions) and NUTS 2 (8 development regions) by using the Beveridge curve. In literature is admitted that "the Beveridge curve depicts the em...

The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the `Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the `Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a reference group. We show how the union of these two value syst...

The European single market makes progress in view to become a single economic area. This process induces some tendencies regarding the crystallizing of the European single labour market. Following the first stage of our model (presented in detail in a previous article), based on OECD Employment Outlook 2009 and 2010 methodology consistent with Davi...