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Can Motivation Theory Explain Migration Decisions?

Reichlová, Natálie - In: Prague Economic Papers 2007 (2007) 1, pp. 70-85

According to Abraham Maslow's motivational theory, human action is motivated by five levels of human needs. The model introduced in this paper exploits Maslow's theory to explain migration flows between regions. In the model, movement from one region to another influences migrant utility in...

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Ready to Go? EU Enlargement and Migration Potential: Lessons for the Czech Republic in the Context of Irish Migration Experience

Strielkowski, Wadim; O'Donoghue, Cathal - In: Prague Economic Papers 2006 (2006) 1, pp. 14-28

EU enlargement is hardly to be seen as the major push factor for migration. There are mainly economic factors that influence the migration decisions. Besides it seems that there is a migration potential, unique for every country, that pre-determines the migration or labour mobility. In our paper...

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A Living Worth Leaving? Economic Incentives and Migration Flows: The Case of Czechoslovak Labour Migration

Strielkowski, Wadim - In: Prague Economic Papers 2007 (2007) 3, pp. 252-264

of both countries could reside and work in another country without any restrictions. This was even more simplified by the …

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The Role of Remittances as More Efficient Tool of Development Aid in Developing Countries

Stojanov, Robert; Strielkowski, Wadim - In: Prague Economic Papers 2014 (2014) 4, pp. 487-503

This paper examines the effectiveness of remittances and official development assistance (ODA) in developing countries. It compares the outcomes of aid poured into the economies of the Third World for decades without any visible effect and remittances transferred by emigrants to their countries...

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The Impact of Czech Commuters on the German Labour Market

Moritz, Michael - In: Prague Economic Papers 2011 (2011) 1, pp. 40-58

Czech workers to obtain a work permit beyond the border. Most of them had only low education. More than 5% of the eastern …

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Turkey and the European Union: Possible Incidence of the EU Accession on Migration Flows

Glazar, Ondřej; Strielkowski, Wadim - In: Prague Economic Papers 2010 (2010) 3, pp. 218-235

income does not have nearly any effect on migration, because it enters the model in two variables that work against each …

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Propensity to Migration in the CEECs: Comparison of Migration Potential in the Czech Republic and Poland

Kowalska, Karolina; Strielkowski, Wadim - In: Prague Economic Papers 2013 (2013) 3, pp. 343-357

Together with mainly economic factors influencing the migration decisions, there is also a migration potential which is unique for every country and that largely pre-determines the outgoing migrations or labour mobility decisions. This paper compares the migration potential and migration...

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The Role of Remittances as More Efficient Tool of Development Aid in Developing Countries

Stojanov, Robert; Strielkowski, Wadim - In: Prague Economic Papers 2013 (2013) 4, pp. 487-503

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The Effect of Female Managers on Gender Wage Differences

Veronika Hedija* - In: Prague Economic Papers 2015 (2015) 1, pp. 38-59

The paper is devoted to gender wage diff erences; it especially focuses on the impact of the gender characteristics of … the manager on gender wage disparity. Under the social identity theory, women in managerial positions, that can aff ect … paper is to investigate the eff ect of the gender characteristics of middle managers on the wages of directly subordinated …

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The Future of Work and Women

Lisowska, Ewa - In: Prague Economic Papers 2007 (2007) 2, pp. 143-164

The paper analyses the causes of the current situation of women on the labour market in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as women's chances for the future. It discusses the questions: Are women more at risk of unemployment than men in the future, or less? Will the twenty first...

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