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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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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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Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being
Albanese, Giuseppe; Carrieri, Vincenzo; Speziali, Maria … - 2021
This paper presents new evidence on the last concluded wave (2007-2013) of the EU cohesion policy. We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the impact of EU Structural Funds (SFs) on a battery of regional well-being indicators including economic, educational, health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658100
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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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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073
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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262135
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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