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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

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Low-skilled jobs and student jobs : employers' preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2015

job offers posted online in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The results show that the student labour market is quite …

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Measuring the shadow economy : endogenous switching regression with unobserved separation

Lichard, Tomáš; Hanousek, Jan; Filer, Randall Keith - 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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Did post-enlargement labor mobility help the EU to adjust during the Great Recession? : the case of Slovakia

Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2014

This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU … labor market conditions in receiving countries and Slovakia. We show that besides the standard demographic factors …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …

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What is the value of foreign work experience? : analysing online CV data in Slovakia

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2016

This paper studies how attractive young returnees are in the labour market and how they behave relative to stayers. We use the online CVs of young people that are posted on the major Slovak job-search portal. The analysis is performed using a set of regression models that investigate...

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The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the...

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Wage determination under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe

Basu, Swati (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Employment determination in enterprises under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe

Basu, Swati (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of …

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Game of prejudice : experiments at the extensive and intensive margin

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Vecci, Joe; Želinský, … - 2020

In an unique lab-in-the-field experiment we design a novel labor market environment, the Game of Prejudice, to elicit preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the Roma) at the intensive margins as well as at the extensive margins. Our unique experiment design...

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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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