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the impact of long-term unemployment - a crucial problem in contemporary European countries - on the economy and on the … coercive principle - was set up. The principal fi ndings concern the decline in long-term unemployment both on the European …
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-employment, unemployment, and long-term unemployment. The principal findings concern the dominance of the supply side of the labour market …
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The minimum wage has been a controversial issue since 1912, when Massachusetts (USA) passed the first state minimum wage act. The Czech Republic has had a statutory national minimum wage since 1990 (Act no. 65/1965 Coll., or the Labour Code; the specific minimum wage levels and the conditions for...
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The paper deals with one of the biggest problems currently faced by the Czech labour market: namely, a shortage of labour with regard to specialists who have completed tertiary education. The introduction stresses the importance of knowledge capital both in contemporary society and in a...
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Economic growth of the Czech Republic differed strongly in two periods: 2001-2003 and 2004-2006. While in the first period the average annual rate of growth of GDP reached only 2,7 %, in the second period the growth accelerated to 5,7 %. The economic growth measured by the indicators of real...
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, because they can deepen or moderate volatility of the economic cycle. The article aims at mapping the rate of unemployment in … comparison of the actual rate of unemployment with the average value NAIRU was used for the specification of the economic cycle …. We compare the rate of unemployment, NAIRU and unemployment gaps in sectors with the average value on the national level …
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Economic growth of the Czech Republic strongly accelerated in the years 2005-2007. Substantial decline of economic activity took place at the end of 2008 and in the year 2009. On the supply side the main contributing factors were labour and total factor productivity. On the demand side the...
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The purchasing power's difference between currencies appears to trigger a person to make the decision of emigrating, but it does not look to be the only one. European Union enlargement, immigration policies, as well as different personal and/or psychological reasons, have modified migrations...
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Economic growth of the Czech Republic differed strongly in two periods: 1996-1999 and 2000-2004. While in the first period the economy was hit by the recession and the average annual rate of growth of GDP reached only 0,9 %, in the second period the growth accelerated to 3,2 %. The economic...
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creation, maintenance and cultivation of appropriate political and economic institutions ("political and economic design … influence of informal institutions, which undoubtedly create "the spawn, out of all grown up". If the state were to be … understood in its minimal role, i. e. as the guarantee and co-creator of basic "well-established" rules and/or institutions, the …
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