This article analyses the effects of minimum wage on employment in the Czech and Slovak Republics based on 2005-17 EU-SILC data. Our results contribute to the scant literature on minimum wage effects in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. While prior empirical findings concurred with...

We examine the role of unemployment inflows and outflows in contributing to unemployment cyclicality in Czechia and Poland, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, and a three-state model of unemployment variance decomposition. We find that the labour...

This research note offers several complementary views that go beyond income poverty, using the most recent (2020) EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data, a survey that provides official poverty statistics in the EU. The study first estimates subjective poverty (SP), which...