The chapter includes the analysis of total factor productivity (TFP) for 11 CEE countries, referred to as the EU11 (Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) during the 2006–2015 period. To assess changes in total...

This chapter focuses on maintaining employment in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises, which is crucial for the functioning of the economy. However, in an economic crisis, the changes in the area of employment of workers often become the foremost way of adapting to declining...

“Age of life” is one of the essential characteristics that differentiate people. Age perception is also associated with social justice. The concept of age is defined ambiguously. At the same time, the different age criteria also forms the basis of age differentiation and age discrimination....

Technological unemployment is a situation when people are without work and seeking work because of innovative production processes and labor-saving organizational solutions.

This chapter explores how youth unemployment, discontinuous employment, and working in low-quality jobs affect individuals’ subsequent occupational conditions. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal EU-SILC data (2005–2012) for five countries, the chapter distinguishes between different...

Die Alterung der Bevölkerung wirft die Frage auf, inwieweit die öffentlichen Räume der Stadt nicht nur in baulicher und verkehrstechnischer Hinsicht den Bedürfnissen dieser wachsenden Personengruppe entsprechen müssen, sondern auch in Bezug auf die dort anzutreffenden Zeitstrukturen. Der...

Am Beispiel Hamburgs werden der Verlauf der Suburbanisierung sowie der gegenwärtig zu beobachtende Reurbanisierungsprozess analysiert. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, zu einem möglichst umfassenden Verständnis der Rahmenbedingungen zu gelangen, die die demografischen Veränderungen in der Kernstadt...

Die Sicherung der Daseinsvorsorge in ländlichen Räumen steht vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels und der damit verbundenen Schrumpfung und Alterung der Bevölkerung vor großen Herausforderungen. Ländliche Grenzräume stellen hierbei aufgrund ihrer räumlichen Lage eine besondere...

In the context of demographic change and the associated shrinking and aging of the population, the safeguarding of public services in rural areas faces great challenges. Rural border areas find themselves in a unique situation due to their location, and must overcome additional challenges if...

The situation, development lines and perspectives of small and medium-sized towns in Germany and France are compared and similarities and differences within the central place systems and the spatial planning of both countries are discussed. With different approaches to definition, these towns...