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

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; ilinčíková, 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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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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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...

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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 …

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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

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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...

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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 …

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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

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

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...

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