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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307360
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494293
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Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Vecci, Joseph; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207766
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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 Mytna - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377299
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959632
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Wage Determination under Communism and in Transition : Evidence from Central Europe
Basu, Swati; Estrin, Saul; Svejnar, Jan - 2004
Using large firm-level data sets from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, we show that the wage behavior …. We also test for the presence of a wage curve and with the exception of Slovakia we do not find a significant association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262025
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Employment Determination in Enterprises under Communism and in Transition : Evidence from Central Europe
Basu, Swati; Estrin, Saul; Svejnar, Jan - 2004
, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262120
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262299
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Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?
van Ours, Jan C. - 2000
This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262345