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Low-Skilled Jobs and Student Jobs : Employers' Preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Mytna Kurekova, Lucia - 2015

Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased competition for low-skilled jobs gave rise to the theory of crowding out of the less educated workers. This paper contributes to better understanding of temporary...

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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials

Abbritti, Mirko - 2012

and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …

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Labor Market Institutions and the Response of Inflation to Macro Shocks in the EU : A Two-Sector Analysis

D'Adamo, Gaetano - 2013

We model empirically the role of labor market institutions in affecting the response of inflation to labor market and …-country differences in inflation adjustment for the "sheltered" (non-trading) sector; the effects in the "exposed" (trading) sector are … the Phillips curve in both sectors. More active LM policies also reduce the persistence of inflation. However, but only in …

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Labour Market Institutions and Inflation Differentials in the EU

D'Adamo, Gaetano - 2015

associated with significant differences in the response of inflation to unemployment and exchange rate shocks. More wage … coordination and higher union density flatten the Phillips curve and increase the inflation response to the real exchange rate, i …

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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes : The Czech Case

Jurajda, Stepan - 2014

We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate's position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. We focus on the effects of gender, various types of academic titles, and also several novel...

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Career Breaks after Childbirth : The Impact of Family Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic

Bicakova, Alena - 2016

The Czech Republic is a country with a strong attachment of women to the labor market, but with one of the longest paid family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we study the impact of two reforms of the duration of the...

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Long Shadows of History : Persecution in Central Europe and its Labor Market Consequences

Myck, Michal - 2011

We analyze the extent and effects of job-related persecution under communist regimes in the Czech Republic and Poland using a representative sample of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Retrospective information collected in the SHARELIFE interview...

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Measuring the Shadow Economy : Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation

Lichard, Tomas - 2012

We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying assumptions as previous estimators based on microeconomic data. The standard identifying assumption that the self-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do...

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Wage Differentials Across Sectors in Europe : An East-West Comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2021

This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...

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Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic : The Role of Spatial Distribution of Universities

Franta, Michal - 2012

We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...

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