Technology has profound effects on labour market dynamics. Numerous studies have highlighted the unique opportunities and challenges that technological change presents to specific demographic groups. The aim of the study is to examine the long-term impact of technological changes within organisations on female unemployment at a macro level. From the perspective of the contingency approach and economic growth theories, the research conducts a panel cointegration analysis employing CCE-MG and AMG long-term panel cointegration estimators. The data on the female unemployment rate, the percentage of R&D expenditure in GDP and the ICT patents in total patents in the G7 countries for 1985–2020 is sourced from the OECD statistics. The analysis indicates the presence of an effect of technological change on the female unemployment rate as well as the national variations in their relationship. In particular, in three countries out of seven (Germany, the UK, the USA), there is the relationship between technological advancements and female unemployment. For the most part, increases in the percentage of R&D expenditure and ICT patents augment the female unemployment, though in Germany a rise in R&D expenditure leads to a decrease in it. The results will contribute to understanding the impact of technology-driven changes in organisations on gender-based labour inequality. The research highlights the complexity of the impact of technological advancements on the female employment and underscores the need for shaping related government policies by considering each country’s specific conditions
In conditions when cities become centres of attraction for resources and people, while experiencing significant problems of environmental, social, economic nature, it is extremely important to form new approaches to urbanised territories development. The article aims to design a mechanism for managing the development of smart cities using a regional approach. Methodologically, the research rests on the theory of the digital society and the propositions of urbanised territories’ public management. The methods include the system-logical method, graphical modelling, and qualitative analysis. The paper propounds a mechanism for smart city public management and proposes its interpretation as a set of measures, actions of management structures, society and business for resource provisioning, as well as technologies for managing the processes of formation and development of a smart city. The main functions of this mechanism include creating conditions for the interaction of ecosystem participants, stable functioning of governing bodies, transparency of management processes, as well as ensuring feedback. The article constructs a graphical model of the mechanism of urbanised territories’ public management under digitalisation. Based on the theoretical developments the paper structures the experience of the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk oblast and concludes that despite quite an extensive list of the smart city initiatives, their implementation largely overlooks such aspects as determining the state and development directions of the digitalisation objects, assessing the risks of smart city projects, maintaining quality of implementation processes, and auditing smart city projects. The findings can contribute to planning the smart cities development at the regional level