Literature recognizes that labour market presents particularities that lead to imperfection in the formation of the demand and supply of competences. Also, in late years, many companies have more and more cross - border operations and are looking for employees that have skills and abilities that give them the ability to perform in a globalized environment. Furthermore, studies conducted along the years showed that it is difficult for universities to have a clear projection regarding the demand for skills and abilities and for that reason, curricula are harder to keep up with the real trends registered on labour market. For that motive, a periodical analysis of labour market requirements is necessary for each profession and for different employment levels. Starting from these considerations, in this study, it is proposed to identify the skills and abilities demanded by employers through online ads for entry level higher education Economist vacancies in Romania. The methodology is based on a qualitative method: the content analysis of LinkedIn ads for entry level higher education Economist and the used instrument is the contingency matrix. For the present analysis, there were used 200 nonrepetitive ads recorded on LinkedIn Romania for junior higher education Economics, between February and July 2024. The results show that, in general, regardless of job main duties, employers want to recruit graduates that have specific skills and abilities which help them to perform and adapt to a diverse and internationalized work environment. Read more

The most common policy response to pension account deficit appears to be increasing age of retirement. Many countries with PAYG pension schemes have been experiencing this bitter reality. This paper brings to evidence some parameters of PAYG pension schemes neglected in short political cycles, but important from the long-term perspectives. We use data from the Czech Republic and Germany, two economies close geographically and by population structure, yet different in pension schemes tradition and economic development. By a comparative analysis we show in detailed parameters that a balanced family policy combined with macroeconomic policies may allow keeping retirement age fixed in a sustainable PAYG pension scheme. Read more

This article examines the concept of colonial anxiety through the prism of printed postcards sent from the colonial Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, during the early twentieth century. The argument is that picture postcards featuring colonial images or scenes act as multimodal forms of communication, allowing the sender to promulgate colonial-imperial assumptions while sending an often-banal tourist message to friends and family back home. The study approaches the topic by examining the postcolonial exchange in terms of a symbolic structure through which the coloniser and the colonial society produce symbolic knowledge, through items such as picture postcards, to portray their authority and knowledge of the colonised other. This is contextualised with the Lacanian understanding of structural anxiety to demonstrate the slippage which occurs when symbolic knowledge breaks down. Finally, this article calls for a more inclusive debate on colonial anxiety, drawing attention to the relative lack of definition of the term and the tendency for certain former colonies, such as Indonesia, to be excluded from discussion in favour of the oft-used South Asian example. Read more