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Employment in Information and Communication Technologies in European Countries and Its Potential Determinants and Consequences

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Information and communication technologies have important role in many different innovations and further positively affect the productivity and economic growth. Our aim was to examine examine the share of ICT sector in selected European countries and identify its potential determinants and consequences. We used mostly panel data for EU28 countries plus Norway and Switzerland and applied correlation and panel Granger causality tests. The employment in ICT was used as main examined variable. Our results suggest that there is a positive correlation between ICT skills as well as the share of people with ICT education and employment in ICT. The causal effect seems to be working in direction from education to employment. Moreover, variables capturing GDP per capita, trade openness, R&D expenditure, number of internet users, quality of regulation and political stability appear to be all positively correlated with employment in ICT and especially with employment in ICT services.

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This work has been supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of Slovak Republic under project VEGA No. 1/1009/16 “Innovation potential of the regions of Slovakia, its measurement and innovation policy at the regional level”.

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  1. Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Tajovskeho 10, 975 90, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

    Peter Pisár & Ján Huňady

  2. Faculty of Management UK, Odbojárov 10, P.O.BOX 95, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Peter Balco

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

  2. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  3. Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Michal Greguš

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Pisár, P., Huňady, J., Balco, P. (2019). Employment in Information and Communication Technologies in European Countries and Its Potential Determinants and Consequences. In: Xhafa, F., Barolli, L., Greguš, M. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98557-2_17

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