Knowledge Intensity and Employment Structures in the European Countries

• Autorzy: Grażyna Węgrzyn
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Building a knowledge-based economy is closely related to innovation growth and should be reflected in the growing importance of sectors that intensively use technology and a highly skilled workforce (i.e. human capital). The growing importance of knowledge in an economy is demonstrated, inter alia, by changes in the employment structure. This paper attempts to identify how employment structure in the service sector depends on the level of knowledge-intensity in a national economy. The analysis covered EU member countries (except Greece and Croatia) during the 2006-2011 period. The intensity of knowledge use seems to vary widely among European countries. Countries advanced in their use of knowledge, having high values of KIE ('knowledge-intensity leaders' and 'knowledge-intensity supporters') have an employment structure demonstrating their structural focus on the industries that require specialized knowledge. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Services; Employment in services; Employment structure

PL

Usługi; Zatrudnienie w usługach; Struktura zatrudnienia

• Czasopismo: Journal of International Studies
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 7
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 96--105

Twórcy

autor

Grażyna Węgrzyn

• Wrocław University of Economics, Poland

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.14254/2071-8330.2014/7-2/8