Summary This paper provides empirical evidence on both the magnitude and determinants of unfilled positions for information technology workers using cross-sectional data on 4150 German firms. Vacancies are defined as unfilled positions excluding those created by replacement needs during the...

Summary The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms’ IT-enabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firm-level data from German manufacturing and services industries....

Auf welchem Niveau befindet sich die IT-Ausstattung der Primar- und Sekundarschulen in Europa? Wie häufig nutzen die Schüler in oder außerhalb der Schule einen Computer und das Internet? Für welche Art von Aktivitäten? Wie werden die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) in die...

The present paper has as an objective the concise analysis of the tendencies we could identify regarding the E-commerce in Romania. These tendencies have been identified after a research, analysing the secondary sources of information we can find in Romania. Starting from the hypothesis that in...

Retail trade, as an activity in a developed economy, came to its stage of maturity, which means that it contains the number and share of employees that does not increase anymore. This activity can now be understood only if we analyze the value chains for specific products, in which it is an...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration - to build an Information...

The Internet and computer networks have changed the way the activities are performed in various fields. Using a computer connected to Internet, the access to services offered in electronically forms is unlimited. The social and human sciences have also been affected by information technologies....