Globalization and unemployment are two phenomena which are amongst the most widely discussed subjects in the economic debate today. Often, globalization is regarded as being responsible for the increase in unemployment, particularly in unskilled labor. This book deals with the correlation...

1. Introduction -- 2. Migration and the Czech Labour Market -- 3. A Panel VAR Granger Causality Analysis of Wages and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Czech Regions -- 4. Convergence in the Czech Labour Market -- 5. Inflation Inequality -- 6. Household-specific Energy Expenditure and Inflation...

Zusammenfassung: This dissertation includes four studies in the field of empirical labour economics with a focus on risk in labour markets. In Chapter 1 the effect of an employment subsidy programme on early apprenticeship dropout is evaluated. The programme can be considered a preventive...