Economic transformation, skills, and the future of work

Beylis, Guillermo; Jaef, Roberto Fattal; Morris, Michael L.; Sebastian, Ashwini Rekha; Sinha, Rishabh

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1448-8_ch3

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“…The nowadays transformations generated by the challenges that started with the COVID-19 pandemic are being reflected in digital transformation, remote working, hybrid working, trade and transport restructuring etc., the energy crisis with impact on economic growth, transport and energy consume, military conflicts with multiple and unexpected effects and other turbulations, clearly demonstrated that the education will be hit by the need of new specialization required on the labour market (Beylis et al, 2020). The present study is a preview of the education system development and needs to change (Kopp et al, 2019).…”

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Perspectives of Human Capital Core Specialization for Digital Transformation in Romania

Grigorescu¹,

Lincaru²,

Pîrciog³

2023

New Trends in Sustainable Business and Consumption

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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 specific new skills and knowledge, educated in new teaching programs. The purpose of the study was to explore the Romanian higher education system capacity to create human capital core specialization for digital transformation in view to design a sustainable occupational mobility. It used the theory based analysis as a logic model, particularly in terms of the causal linkages between outputs and the different levels of outcome. Higher education spatial and temporal analysis were conducted with focus on study programs with relevant content for digital transformation creation in the framework the unified matriculation register. The specialized study programs are the intervention that should make the difference in digital transformation. Interdisciplinarity is the core of the new digital occupations formalization which request to develop and update an appropriate taxonomy based on a common scientific framework. The study offers practical inputs to design new tools for interdisciplinary management in creation of new occupational standards, to design study programs adequate for the new digitalized economy. A second finding refers to the domains that are faster moving forward to the new dimensions of digital adoption and futures jobs, the labor mobility, flexibility and hybrid or remote opportunities being part of the new business paradigm.

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confidence: 68%

Perspectives of Human Capital Core Specialization for Digital Transformation in Romania

Grigorescu¹,

Lincaru²,

Pîrciog³

2023

New Trends in Sustainable Business and Consumption

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“…This stems from the constant need to adapt and adjust these workers to new organizational layouts and information systems. These issues have been analyzed and demonstrate the deficit found in workers with lower education levels when they have greater difficulties adapting and updating in the face of transformational environments (Michaels et al, 2013;Arvanitis and Loukis, 2015;Beylis et al, 2020). Therefore, even with all the limitations for small businesses adopting human resource practices, it is understood that the selection of employees and franchisees trained in higher education comprises a qualifying element of the local workforce.…”

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Regional development and the institutional environment for franchise chains: frontiers of small and medium-sized cities

Melo¹,

Borini²,

Isaac³

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand and identify the various characteristics of the institutional environment and the factors that propitiate the attraction of franchise chains to cities in the interior, using Brazil as an analysis. Design/methodology/approach Secondary data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics were used. It comprised a sample of 1,683 Brazilian cities with commercial outlets featuring franchise brands. It was limited to cities with populations of up to 100,000 inhabitants that did not constitute metropolitan regions. The statistical technique performed was multiple regression. Findings The results of the multiple regression confirm the explanatory power of R² = 36% for the analyzed model. Such presence of franchise chains is based on four institutional dimensions and their environmental characteristics: demographic (demographic density); economic and financial (average monthly salary of formal workers and number of banking agencies); business (number of active companies and presence of shopping centers); and human resources (presence of higher education units). Research limitations/implications The main contribution of the study encompasses the call that regional institutional characteristics are part of knowledge guidelines on regional development and institutional environments for entrepreneurship. In this sense, the paper contributes to studies on regional development in particular, by punctuating the characteristics of the institutional environment of cities that are related to the existence of franchise chain brands. Practical implications Such contributions are addressed to managers and directors of expanding franchise chains, given the choice of locations that best enable the concept of their franchises. The fact that only 20% of franchises have a presence in these cities, even if it is admitted that for 70% of these chains, their businesses have the capacity to make these locations viable, shows the importance of this contribution. Social implications This study is addressed to public managers, represented by secretaries of municipal developments, in view of the construction of an institutional environment conducive to entrepreneurial activity, in this specific case, by franchises. It is an important mechanism for attracting new businesses and creating a virtuous cycle of regional development. Originality/value Specifically, knowledge is generated about the insertion of ventures based on the franchise business model in small- and medium-sized regional markets. A second feature involves the understanding of the insertion of enterprises in a large and heterogeneous emerging market.

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Trends in Kazakhstan labor market development in the context of economy transformation

Yeralina

Алшанов

2023

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The main employment trends are formed under the influence of structural transformations in the economy. The aim of this article is to determine the trends in the Kazakhstan labor market development in in the context of economy transformation over the past 10 years by studying the dynamics and structure of employment, depending on changes in the structure of republic’s gross domestic product. Generalization, comparison, economic-statistical (horizontal and vertical) and correlation analysis served as the main research methods. The statistical base of the study was the indicators of the Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan on employment and gross domestic product by type of economic activity for 2011, 2016 and 2021. During the study, it was determined that there is a pronounced (noticeable) direct statistical relationship between trends in the labor market and trends in the structure of the economy. It was revealed that the trends in labor market development in Kazakhstan are determined and depend on the trends of change and transformation of the economy structure. During the period from 2011 to 2021, the country's economy was transformed, namely, the share of the tertiary sector increased. The same trend is observed in the labor market. Thus, wholesale and retail trade, transport and warehousing, real estate transactions account for almost a third of the country's GDP. At the same time, the number of people employed in these areas is a quarter of the total number of employed. These sectors account for the highest labor productivity rates along with the mining industry. Interest in the service sector on the part of employed Kazakhstanis is growing, while in agriculture, forestry and fisheries is falling. The results of the study can serve as a scientific justification for the implementation of an effective policy in the field of labor and employment.

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Economic transformation, skills, and the future of work

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References 27 publications

Perspectives of Human Capital Core Specialization for Digital Transformation in Romania

Perspectives of Human Capital Core Specialization for Digital Transformation in Romania

Regional development and the institutional environment for franchise chains: frontiers of small and medium-sized cities

Trends in Kazakhstan labor market development in the context of economy transformation

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