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Creative Economy at the Nexus of Innovation, Digitalization and Education: ARDL and NARDL Approach from Kazakhstan

ECONOMICS
Volume 13 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)
By: Yeldos BolatbekORCID,  Tolkyn KakizhanovaORCID,  Zauresh AkhmetovaORCID,  Zhulduz DildebayevaORCID and  Elmira AdiyetovaORCID  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2025-0060 | Journal eISSN: 2303-5013 | Journal ISSN: 2303-5005
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Language: English
Page range: 147 - 166
Submitted on: Feb 13, 2025
Accepted on: Jul 20, 2025
Published on: Sep 2, 2025
Published by: Oikos Institut d.o.o.
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year
Keywords:
female employment,
economic growth,
birth rate,
digitalization,
ARDL
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures,
Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics,
Public finance and fiscal theory

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