Speranta Pirciog

• National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection

The open innovation paradigm has evolved from its incipient form, namely Schumpeter’s new production function from 1912, to the current context of a global network of societies, including virtual communities that produce innovative ideas and industry applications through knowledge transfer. The role of industry-university cooperation and networks i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The growing importance of the global economy and innovation networks has led to the need to develop a regional innovation policy that transcends regional and national borders. Transnational cooperation in smart specialization strategies is the engine of future economic growth in Europe, especially in times of economic crisis as it involves the exch...

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 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 paper we focus on both subjective and objective evaluation of the net impact of training measures in Romania based on beneficiaries’ opinion on the usefulness of the measure and on a propensity score matching approach. For that, micro-data for both the treatment group and the control group were collected through a survey elaborated on 641 r...

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....

Improving the matching in between educational curricula and labour market demands is one of the Recommendations formulated for Romania in 2013 by the European Commission with respect to the reform of higher education system. Why do we need an increasing education-job match? Theoretical background points to increasing career perspectives, increasing...

Our paper explores the patterns of occupational mobility using a theoretical framework which integrates elements from job matching and human capital theories. We employ a network analysis approach and consider occupations as nodes and flows of individuals moving from one occupation to another as links. By testing a gravity model on data containing...

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...

In this paper, we have investigated the impact of various macroeconomic variables, such as labor cost, Gross Domestic Product and net investments upon employment in Romania. In order to do that, we first estimated a fixed effects panel data model over the period 2000-2009, for the main Romanian economic activities, leading to a set of results consi...

This article examines some of the key factors that influence employment, focusing mainly on the demand side of the labor market. We use panel data for the 27 members of the European Union to estimate the impact of foreign direct investment, trade openness and labor productivity on employment. The results indicate that these factors have a positive...

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...

We explore the profile of the Romanian companies that had invested in R&D during 2004 - 2007 by applying a standard logistic model on micro data collected from small, medium and large firms. Our findings show that the main determinants of the investments in research and development are firm size and location, sector, type of products, investment in...

Traditional Keynesian theory emphasizes the central role of demand-side factors in macroeconomic fluctuations, but real business cycle theory puts technology shocks as the main drivers of business cycles. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of labor productivity on Romanian employment. Our analysis is based on panel estimation consider...

In this paper we use micro-data from a national-wide survey conducted in 2008 by NRILSP and CURS to investigate the labor market entry and early career process for the university graduates. In particular, we want to investigate the factors that affect the odds of job matching. We focus strictly on the personal incentives, making a gender distinctio...

Public childcare and educational services are complex services resulting in a relationship that is established between a supplier and a consumer of such services. In 2002 the European Council meeting in Barcelona, established that by 2010, the Member States should develop childcare services for at least 90% of children between 3 years old and the m...

Pentru identificarea match-ului dintre pregătire si piaţa muncii, pe latura de cerere de forţă de muncă se impune o analiză riguroasă a structurii şi dinamicii specialiştilor dintr-un sector economic. Această analiză nu poate fi efectuată direct pe baza statisticilor existente, fiind necesară realizarea unor anchete pentru colectarea datelor necesa...

This article starts with the main problems and challenges which the European labour markets have been facing in the last years, analyses the effects of the employment policies on the labour markets’ dynamic during 2000-2004, and names the political priorities within the labour market policies as they are formulated within different documents. Based...