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This paper studies the working conditions of workers with different forms of typical and atypical work contracts. The paper uses the European Working Conditions Survey from 2005 and 2010 which allows following the trends over time. The study has two main goals. In the first part it aims to map the structure of working contracts with regard to socio-demographic and geographic structure of labour force. In the second part this study investigates the primafacie relationships between the work contracts and working conditions. Firstly, the main findings reveal that the use of the a/typical working contracts has changed between 2005 and 2010 and is conditioned especially by sector, region and workers' age. Secondly, the results do not support the thesis that atypical workers would be exposed to worse working conditions than typical workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development of knowledge based economy has been contemporary ranked among the basic priorities. In this paper, we examine the convergence among some basic quantitative indicators of knowledge economy between the European Union member states and influence of the global economic crisis to this convergence. We analyze links between various indicators of the knowledge economy using a multidimensional linear regression model. In the next section, we use a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and Wilks' lambda distribution to determine whether there is convergence between the two groups of states simultaneously in several indicators. Suggested methodology can also be used for a large number of indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today when according to the accelerating speed of innovation technological development evokes thoughts about beginning of the third industrial revolution the manufacturing industry has been contemporaneously featured with significant decline of production and also jobs. In order to accelerate not only a temporary increase of manufacturing industry its structural adaptation seems to be inevitable. This article focuses on the key factors determining the structural adjustment of the European manufacturing industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]