The paper specifies and estimates a production function for the airline industry, identifying firms' network characteristics and efficiency as the main determinants of their productivity. The application of this analysis to the European market shows that productivity differences among flag carriers could explain the governments' different views about deregulation at the beginning of the eightie...

Consumers in the European Union are involved in integration processes that head towards homogenization of food consumption patterns+ Several factors are encouraging these homogenization trends based on consumers’ similarities and corporate activities+ In this article a review of the food consumption structure, across European Union countries, is undertaken+ First, food consumption trends in dif...

We introduce the idea of common serial correlation features among non-stationary, cointegrated variables. That is, the time series do not only trend together in the long run, but adjustment restores equilibrium immediately in the period following a deviation. Allowing for delayed reequilibration, we extend the framework to codependence. The restrictions derived for VECMs exhibiting the common f...

Trends in the labor market, as a result of global economic recession, are characterized by reduction of manpower activity, decreased number of employed and increased number of unemployed persons. As the result of economic recession more then million workplaces are expected to be lost in the European Union. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of economic recession on labor market ...

Innovation strategies of entrepreneurs are mapped with growth and performance of their firms in this study. Findings of the study are based on the data collected from 1238 small ICT firms located in 25 member states of European Union. The survey was conducted during October 2006 and March 2007. Results of Logit analysis suggest that firms that pursued continuous innovation strategies experience...

According to many documents issued by the European Union soft skills are closely connected with employability, particularly with regard to the transition of young people into the labour market. Nevertheless the programmes of most European universities are still focused on teaching traditional scientific skills rather than paying attention to soft and complementary skills. This article illustrat...

La investigación realizada se centró en el vínculo de la ayuda humanitaria con hambruna Rusia, organizada principalmente por Fridtjof Nansen. acción internacional apuntó a millones vidas, aunque las autoridades soviéticas limitaron su impacto. gran 1921 Rusia provocó un amplio movimiento humanitario Europa y América. Si bien soviética permaneció aislada diplomáticamente hasta 1924, organizacion...