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The aim of this chapter is to determine the relation between the amount of government expenditure on education and development of the basic macroeconomic indicators of GDP and public debt using EU countries data relating to times of economic and debt crisis. This paper is a combination of theoretical knowledge with practical examples. Theoretical area includes mainly the definition of fiscal policy, its application in the European Union as well as the economic background characteristic of the factors examined during times of crisis. The analysis of examined variables is based on both comparative and correlation method, and the results are further processed using cluster analysis and linear regression to predict the future values of the amount of government expenditure on education. The results of work will help the reader better understand the relation between the amount of government expenditure on education and development of the economy in times of crisis. People interested in the subject will be enriched by an explanation of how to effectively predict future changes in the amount of government expenditure on education.

This case study focuses on the usage of mathematical tools within a broader macroeconomic application. The prime objective of the case study is to predict a short-term development of the most important macroeconomic variable, GDP, and to analyze its influence on the state’s fiscal policy. As the future GDP development prediction tools serve time series analysis methods, namely moving averages and exponential smoothing. Results are afterward being used in the macroeconomic IS–LM model to identify changes in the goods and money market, respectively. The final outcome reflects fiscal policy behavior based on changes caused by GDP development and policy recommendations for obtaining desired objectives. For the sake of the paper, all the above-stated steps are being applied for data reflecting Germany’s and Greece’s GDP, as for the best-performing and the worst-performing Eurozone economy. The results show that an established trend in growth and recession will be even more significant.

This chapter deals with labour market analysis of the Slovak Republic. The first part of the chapter observes the main economic indicators of the labour market, such as gross domestic product (GDP), minimal wage, inflation rate and unemployment rate in the selected Central European counties: Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovak Republic. The influence of GDP to the number of advertised vacant positions on the Slovak labour market and the relationship between vacancies and unemployment rate are analysed. Furthermore in the second part of the paper we evaluated the results of job offer analyses realized on data collected between 2010 and 2013.

In this paper, the usability and the usefulness of mobile technologies far beyond personal communication has been demonstrated by the mobile birth registration (MBR) concept. To remove the hindrances like long distances, time-consuming travels, and high costs, MBR makes use of ‘gatekeepers’, i.e., trusted, reliable, and community-based individuals that carry out birth registration using mobile phones. Mobile technologies have been proven as a technological efficient and scalable supplement to the current fixed infrastructure. It is also shown that MBR brings lots of advantages and conveniences to all parties from the children, parents, government, gatekeepers, and NGOs. A simple Social Benefit assessment reaffirms the social value of MBR. Its financial feasibility is proven by a brief financial feasibility study.

The service sector is closely related with the technology developments and consequently the access to services, their provision, and consumption are optimized. The banking industry is no exception to it. It is strongly influenced by technology developments and tries to meet new challenges and thus to develop further itself. Particularly affected and being put under increasing pressure are the core banking businesses—accounts and payments. Their central element is the money that has experienced a change in its form of existence over time. Money (same as many other goods and services) were being digitized and its value were being transferred to plastic card and lately mobile phones (PPP (paper—plastic—phone) evolution of money). Along with the technological developments comes both the socio-demographic shifts and changes in the legal environment. On the other hand, opportunities for new participants (other than banks) on the (cashless) payment market are opening up and with it the position of the banks on the payment market is threatened. Due to the fact that banks are very much impacted by the developments in technology and they count among the heaviest investors in information technology, this paper will attempt to provide valuable insight into how the banks implement or could implement the new (mobile) technologies and the smartphone. Further, this paper comprises three aspects of our contemporary society: the importance of the tertiary sector of the economy—services in the developed countries, the development of new (mobile) technologies, and the high penetration rate and acceptance of “the device” of the contemporary history—the smartphone. The aim of this work is to translate these three aspects into the banking service sector in Austria (with a focus on the payments).

In this chapter we intend to address different aspects of service management and business in relation to service science. With the shift from goods to service(s), and from manufacturing to service economy, a need for the new discipline called service science has arisen. The growth of service sector and its relevance for businesses, as we now live in service-based economy, has resulted in the need for many organizations to adjust their everyday operations to enable them to respond more quickly to changing market conditions, and to be more efficient and effective in the application of services. Thus, the main aim of our work is to perform recherché, examination, and systematization of different aspects of service management and business in relation to the service science. A partial goal is to provide the reader with an overview of the need for the discipline called service science to emerge. Another partial goal is to analyze the importance for businesses to create service innovations. And also an objective is to analyze the need for properly educated professionals and tools to apply the principles of service science. While writing this work we combine the study of literature, mostly scientific literature, with our own analytical proposal, and recommendation capabilities.

Search engine optimization techniques, often shortened to SEO, should lead to first positions in organic search results. Some optimization techniques do not change over time, and still form the basis of SEO. However, as the Internet and web design evolves dynamically, optimization techniques arise and die. In the first section of this chapter, we will look at the most important factors and techniques that can help to improve position in search results. However, none of the factors can guarantee it because search engines have sophisticated algorithms, which measure the quality of web pages and derive their position in search results from it. In the next section we will introduce and examine the object of optimization, which is a website http://​bratislava-slovakia.​eu. This website was created for the sole purpose—to implement and test all main SEO techniques. The main objective of this chapter is to verify whether search engine optimization increases traffic and, if so, to what extent.

Corporate e-learning is a way how a company can spread desired information among all employees without any time or space limitations. It is considered as a simple and low-cost method of educating employees. Companies are constantly growing and with an increasing number of employees it is easier but also more convenient to implement e-learning for the purposes of education. The chapter describes implementation of e-learning from the perspective of a company providing e-learning systems but also from the view of a company actively using e-learning. Both views are supported by a questionnaire survey realized among employees using e-learning at work. Combination of three points of view enables us to achieve a complex picture about the current state of e-learning, its advantages as well as disadvantages, and last but not least, to give us the insight into importance of implementation of e-learning in companies.