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  • Mechanisms for supporting electric vehicle purchasers in selected European countries in 2011-2016

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    The European authorities have not developed a single common preference model for electric car buyers within the Union. Different countries have decided on different solutions. The following dataset presents mechanisms for supporting electric vehicle purchasers in selected European countries in years 2011-2016, including both economical (in the form...

  • EU-Turkey Customs Union and Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment Flows

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    - Year 2016

    Main aim of this text is presentation of the effects of customs union between the European Union and turkey on bilateral FDI flows in light of the theory of linkages between economic integration and FDI flows. First section of the text is a survey of main theoretical links between economic integration and FDI flows. Second section focuses on the history and scope of the customs union. Third and fourth sections are empirical and...

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  • ETS prices 2008-2024

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    The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is a carbon emission trading scheme (or cap and trade scheme) which began in 2005 and is intended to lower greenhouse gas emissions by the European Union countries. The "ETS prices 2008-2024" dataset contains a summary of ETS prices in 2008-2024.

  • ZEUS Concept and Its Wider European Application

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    The objectives of the ZEUS project and the resulting concept of an integrated system of transport safety are recapitulated in the article. The context for transport safety management that has evolved since this became a concern of the European Union under the Treaty of Union in 1993 is outlined, and some issues related to applying the ZEUS concept across Europe are discussed. It is concluded that there is scope for exploring ways...

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  • Is There any Demand for the Workers Aged 50+ in Poland?

    The process of ageing affects all the European Union Member States, including Poland. According to forecasts by the Central Statistical Office, in 2035, the population of Poland will decrease in relation to 2010 by more than 2 million, and the share of people aged 50+ in the total population will increase from 34.8% to 46.6% (Prognoza ludności 2009). In the context of current and projected demographic changes, a discussion is taking...

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  • Percentage of the working age population in selected EU countries in 2006 and 2017

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    The phenomenon of aging of the society, and thus changes in the structure of the share of population in pre- and post-working age, is typical for all European Union countries. The median age of the population in the European Union countries in 2001-2016 increased from 38.5 years to 43 years. This is the scale of the aging of the population (Median age...

  • Michał Michna dr hab. inż.

    Michal Michna received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Gdansk, Poland, in 1998 and 2005, respectively. Since 2004, he was employed at the Department of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines of the Gdańsk University of Technology (assistant, assistant professor, senior lecturer). In 2010-2015 he was a deputy of head of the Department of Power Electronics and...

  • Employment structure in individual enterprises in Poland in 2010-2014

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    It is worth mentioning the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the labor market. The above-mentioned entities employ in total nearly 70% of all employees who work in the corporate sector. Micro enterprises play a decisive role in this respect, accounting for nearly 40% of all employees.Comparing the data contained in the table below...

  • EU state aid within the Rural Development Program 2014-2020

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    This dataset is a combination of EU and Polish legislation on the state aid in the agriculture sector, selected literature and few exemples of European Commission decisions on projects initiated in some EC Member States during the budgetary period 2014-2020. Careful reading of the materials will allow to review some effects of the state aid granted...

  • Dawid Ryś dr hab. inż.

    Courses PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management Tire-Pavement Interaction course Micromechanical Analysis of Asphalt Concrete

  • Tax discount for children deducted from income in selected EU countries, available according to the criterion of the number of children (in EUR) in 2017

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    Despite the far-reaching harmonization of collection mechanisms and the amount of VAT and excise duty rates in the European Union, individual countries, as a rule, conduct individual income tax policies, including a system of reliefs and exemptions. It is worth noting that, as shown below, each European Union country uses at least one method of supporting...

  • The number of enterprises in Poland and EU countries (in thousands) in 2019

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    Enterprises from the SME sector constitute the majority of companies in Poland and in the European Union countries. However, the structure of domestic enterprises in terms of size and industry differs from the EU average. The following dataset contains the number of enterprises in Poland and EU countries (in thousands) in 2019.

  • Ewa Klugmann-Radziemska prof. dr hab.

    Ewa Klugmann-Radziemska graduated from the University of Gdansk with a degree in physics, and since 1996 has been associated with the Gdansk University of Technology, when she began PhD studies. Currently, he is a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Gdansk University of Technology, since 2006 head of the Department of Chemical Apparatus and Machinery. In the years 2008–2016 she was the Vice-Dean for cooperation and development,...

  • INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ENTERPRISES IN KAZAKHSTAN AS AN EXAMPLE OF INTERNATIONALIZATION PATTERNS IN THE AREA OF THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION.

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    - Year 2019

    The article aims to show the specificity of the internationalization of Kazakh enterprises, in particular, the pace, scope, intensity, and forms of their internationalization in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). The EEU is a relatively young grouping that was established in 2015 by the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation. EEU creators try to give...

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  • Does one currency mean one price? An analysis of the euro effect on price dispersion and convergence

    This paper examines price differentials in the European Union to investigate whether the European Monetary Union has lowered the degree of price dispersion in the euro zone and increased the speed of price convergence. Both euro effects are evaluated using difference-in-difference methodology. Applied to the issue of introducing a single currency, the euro effects identified are the estimated differences in price dispersion and...

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  • What fosters firm-level labour productivity in Eastern European and Central Asian countries?

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    This study examines labour productivity performance and its determinants in Eastern European and Central Asian (EECA) firms using micro-level data. We find significant differences in labour productivity among members of the European Union in Eastern Europe and other Eastern European and Central Asian countries. We also confirm the important impact of foreign ownership, exporter status, and highly skilled workers on productivity...

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  • Possibility of joint settlement with the spouse / partner in individual EU countries (2017)

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    The method of avoiding tax progression known in Poland, consisting in settling income together with the spouse (and in certain cases also the child), the system of this specific relief is also present in other European Union countries such as: Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Germany, Portugal, UK...

  • Paweł Czarnul dr hab. inż.

    Paweł Czarnul obtained a D.Sc. degree in computer science in 2015, a Ph.D. in computer science granted by a council at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology in 2003. His research interests include:parallel and distributed processing including clusters, accelerators, coprocessors; distributed information systems; architectures of distributed systems; programming mobile devices....

  • Dagmara Nikulin dr

    Bio: Dagmara Nikulin Dagmara Nikulin has been employed at the Faculty of Management and Economics as a research and teaching assistant professor since 2014. Initially, she worked at the Department of Economic Sciences, and now at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics at the Poznań University of Economics (2009) and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University...

  • Does migration lead to economic convergence in an enlarged European market?

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    This paper examines the relationship between migration and convergence for the enlarged internal market of the European Union (EU27) for the period 1990-2007. The impact of migration on growth is estimated in two ways: by including the migration rate in a growth regression and examining its impact on the convergence coefficient; and from the actual coefficient on migration, which can be interpreted as the effect of migration on...

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  • TWO-SHAFT GAS TURBINE TEACHING AND TESTING STATION

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    The station was established as part of a project co-financed by the European Union with the funds of the European Regional Development Fund as part of the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme titled: “Establishment of state-of-the-art technical infrastructure for the Engineers of the Future learning programme at the Gdańsk University of Technology” executed in 2013-2015.

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  • Threats to Armenia’s Security in the National Strategy and Practice with Special Emphasis on External Security,

    The national security strategy adopted in 2007 provided a detailed definition of security and identified its threats. The key threat to the Armenian state was considered to be the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The document indicated the Collective Security Treaty Organisation main guarantor of security, with Russia being Armenia’s main partner in bilateral relations. The second position in the strategy was assigned to cooperation...

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  • Top 10 Iran Import Goods in 2011

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    The following dataset shows the volume of trade of the European Union countries with Iran. One can observe a significant drop in both imports and exports (the year 2012 meant tightening of sanctions, which clearly limited the import of Iranian products to the EU). After lifting the sanctions it is expected to substantially increase the level of trade...

  • Total Goods: EU Trade flows and balance with Iran, 2005-2015 (in millions of USD).

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    The following dataset shows the volume of trade of the European Union countries with Iran. One can observe a significant drop in both imports and exports (the year 2012 meant tightening of sanctions, which clearly limited the import of Iranian products to the EU). After lifting the sanctions it is expected to substantially increase the level of trade...

  • The Opening of Central and Eastern European Countries to Free Trade: A Critical Assessment

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    - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics - Year 2021

    Three decades after the fall of the Berlin wall and one and a half decades after the Big Bang enlargement of the European Union (2004-2007), we revisit contrasting narratives about the benefit of both free trade and the EU enlargement for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. We distinguish old, pre-2004 EU countries from CEE countries that joined the EU in 2004-2007, as well as from the CEE countries that have not become...

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  • EXCHANGE TRADED COMMODITIES AS A CATEGORY OF INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS ON EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MARKETS

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    The article presents the main features of one category of innovative financial products – exchange traded commodities (ETCs) and results of the analysis of the European market for ETCs. ETCs are products listed and traded on the stock exchanges and they offer investors returns based on various assets (commodities or currencies). In contrast with the most widely recognized exchange traded funds (ETFs), ETCs are structured as debt...

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  • The influence of climate change on the life insurance in the EU: A panel data approach

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    - E3S Web of Conferences - Year 2021

    The financial sector, as one of the most sensitive economic sectors, is alert to all trends and changes in the environment. The aim of the article is to study the impact of climate change on the life insurance market using panel data from 28 countries of the European Union (EU) for the last 9 years. This study is based on a panel model, where the amount of premiums under life insurance contracts is defined as a function of the...

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  • The use of Markov chains in the social convergence analysis

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    - Year 2015

    The main goal of this article is to analyze the social convergence process using Markov chains. In this research, term social convergence refers to the reduction of dispersion in the standard of living among countries. The use of Markov chains in the social convergence analysis allowed describing movements of observational units within the distribution and providing more details about the mechanism of the convergence process. A...

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  • Number of devices accepting electronic payment instruments per million inhabitants in EU countries 2015

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    This research data presents the number of devices accepting electronic payment instruments per million inhabitants in the EU countries in 2015. It is an element of the so-called the banking index, which in the subject literature is defined as the number of people actively using services banking. It is noted that this coefficient is also an expression...

  • The number of enterprises in Poland and EU countries (in thousands) in 2019

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    Enterprises from the SME sector constitute the majority of companies in Poland and in the European Union countries. However, the structure of domestic enterprises in terms of size and industry differs from the EU average. Taking into account the nature of the business in Poland, more companies operate in trade, and lower in services. However, it should...

  • Mukesh Shankar Bharti PhD

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    Mukesh Shankar Bharti is a research scholar with a research background in foreign policy analysis and social science research. The author holds a PhD degree in International Relations with a specialization in East and Central Europe. His research area includes democracy, political institutions, European Union and South Asia.

  • Indicators describing the effectiveness of tax systems of selected OECD countries

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    The following research data include indicators describing the effectiveness of the tax administration activity in Poland compared to selected countries. In economic understanding efficiency is measured by the calculation of the expenditure of funds spent on its operation and performance of statutory functions. In this respect, the basic indicator is...

  • Mowa nienawiści (hate speech) a odpowiedzialność dostawców usług internetowych w orzecznictwie sądów europejskich

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    - Year 2015

    The article analyses the phenomenon of hate speech in the Internet contrasted with the problem of responsability of Internet Service Providers for cases of such abuses of freedom of expression. The text provides an analysis of jurisprudence of two European Courts. On the one hand it presents the position of the European Court of Human Rights on the problem of hate speech: its definition and the liability for it as an exception...

  • Jacek Namieśnik prof. dr hab. inż.

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    Scientific discipline: chemistryRector in 2016-2019 He was born on 10 December, 1949 in Mogilno. He graduated in 1972 at the Faculty of Chemistry at Gdańsk University of Technology, obtaining a master's degree in chemical engineering. In 1972 he started working at Gdańsk University of Technology, where in 1978 he defended his doctoral thesis and in 1985 he completed his habilitation. He was appointed an associate professor in 1991...

  • The number of enterprises in Poland and selected EU countries in 2012

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    In 2012, Poland was sixth in the ranking of the number of enterprises in selected European Union countries. In total, 22 million companies conduct business in the countries of the Community. However, when analyzing these values in relative numbers (calculated as the number of enterprises per 1000 inhabitants), Poland ranks only 22nd among the Member...

  • The largest companies in the TSL industry in Poland in 2011

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    The data contained in the dataset shows that the most successful transport, forwarding and logistics company in Poland in 2011 was PKP CARGO S.A. The company is the largest carrier in the country, while in the European Union it ranks second in terms of freight transport.

  • Krzysztof Leja dr hab. inż.

    Krzysztof Leja graduated from the Faculty of Applied Physics at Gdansk University of Technology, PhD in economics, DSc in management. Associate professor and v-ce dean for research at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology. His fields of interest include research of HEIs and policy studies. He is an expert of Polish Rectors Foundation and Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He led and participated...

  • Elderly persons professional activity - substantive issues and methodical challenges

    Population ageing and mass withdrawal of persons around retirement age from the labour market constitutes a serious threat for European Union economy, especially in the so-called new member states. The coming years are expected to bring a considerable increase in public spending on pensions and health care, as well as changes in the structure and size of consumer demand and an increase in the number of socially excluded individuals....

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  • Fiscal decentralization in the European Countries: a cluster analysis approach

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    - Year 2021

    The scope of public authority depend on many factors. One of them is a declaration, usually expressed in the constitution of a given country (Sferlea, 2014, Libman, 2010, Nehmelman, Vetzo, 2016) of the application of the decentralisation principle in the performance of public tasks. Despite this declaration, the structure of the public sector and the tasks carried out at different levels in particular countries are not identical....

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  • COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION OF KAZAKHSTAN ENTERPRISES

    This paper presents the instruments of internationalization of enterprises operating within the Eurasian Economic Union. Research contains answers of 108 enterprises exporters located in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The purpose of the paper is to show the main forms of the internationalization of enterprises in Kazakhstan. The paper also presents the following instruments of enterprises’ internationalization including: indirect...

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  • Jerzy Konorski dr hab. inż.

    Jerzy Konorski received his M. Sc. degree in telecommunications from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, and his Ph. D. degree in computer science from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. In 2007, he defended his D. Sc. thesis at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology. He has authored over 150 papers, led scientific projects funded by the European Union,...

  • Top personal income tax rates (PIT) in EU countries (in%).

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    When analyzing the historical PIT rates, it should be noted that in 2000 the average rate was almost 45%. The highest income tax (approx. 60%) was imposed in Belgium, Denmark, as well as in the Netherlands and France. On the other hand, the lowest (25%) rates were recorded in Estonia and Latvia, which were not yet members of the European Union. In the...

  • A la recherche d’une coherence perdue – Possible Arguments for the Non-application of EU Law in Member States

    The European Union (EU) is an international organization which has a broad scope of competences that have been transferred to it by its Member States in the founding Treaties. The object of the article is to identify arguments raised, or that potentially might be raised, by national Constitutional Courts (and in the future possibly by other actors as well) to exclude in certain instances the application of EU law or EU jurisprudence...

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  • The Efficiency and Productivity Evaluation of National Innovation Systems in Europe

    Purpose: An efficient innovation system currently plays a crucial role in creating competitive prevalence, contributing to the economic growth of individual states. The innovation system is influenced by many socioeconomic factors, including in international rankings of innovativeness of economies. These classifications have some limitations. Primarily, they do not examine the efficiency, which means they do not analyze the...

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  • Forecast of basic fuel prices in imports to Poland (constant prices in USD in 2007)

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    This dataset presents price growth forecasts for conventional energy sources. It should be noted that the Ministry of Economy forecasts a more than two-fold increase in oil prices (although these forecasts may be greatly underestimated) over 23 years, an almost two-fold increase in natural gas prices and a 40% increase in coal prices.

  • The Bridge of Knowledge – defining and implementing national Open Access policy by Polish universities. Gdansk University of Technology perspective

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    The European Commission states that Open Access to scientific resources funded by the European Union shall facilitate the use of research results financed from the public funds. Moreover, it will cause an increase in the innovative capacity of Europe. The Open Access landscape is determined by several factors such as mandates. The open mandate may be voluntary or mandatory and implemented at the institutional, national or international...

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  • Continuous learning as a method of raising qualifications – the perspective of workers, employers and training organizations

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    - Year 2014

    Continuous learning is discussed in strategic documents of Poland and the European Union. In Poland, the idea of continuous learning is not very popular. However, in the context of strong competition in the labour market and the progressive globalization processes, the skills issue takes on new meaning — both for employees and employers. In order to adapt skills to labour market needs it is necessary to conduct adequate studies...

  • Tomasz Szymański dr inż. arch.

    Tomasz Szymanski (Ph.D.) is an architect and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Gdansk. Graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Gdansk. Studies completed with a diploma with honors. Research Interests Dr. Tomasz Szymanski are centered around the issue of industrial heritage, re-use, adaptation and revitalization of industrial buildings and objects...

  • Implementing Integrated Territorial Investments

    The chapter presents the first experiences related to the implementation of the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI). In the case of the Pomeranian region in Poland, this process was associated with the creation of a broad partnership and bottom-up approach to the development strategy programming for Urban Functional Areas. In this paper, we try to assess the effectiveness of this process, by defining its strong points and bottlenecks,...

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