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

Mytna Kurekova, Lucia - 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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Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment : A New Hypothesis

Bellou, Andriana - 2019

The cohorts of women born at the turn of the 20th century increased markedly their participation in the labor market when older. These are the first cohorts who worked after their childbearing years. In this paper, we document a link between their work behavior and the Great Depression. We show...

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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana - 2014

The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...

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Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

Kahanec, Martin - 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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Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe

Magda, Iga - 2019

Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked...

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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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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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An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Dependence in the Czech Republic

Guzi, Martin - 2013

Paper demonstrates the existence of a welfare trap in the Czech Republic, created by the tax and social security systems. Combining individual data from the Czech Labor Force Survey and the Czech Household Income Survey, the analysis exploits the difference between the available social benefits...

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Female Managers and Their Wages in Central Europe

Jurajda, Stepan; Paligorova, Teodora - 2021

This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay gaps, we acknowledge the adverse consequences of the low and uneven representation of women for the...

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