Mental health has an economic impact on both individuals and societies. There is lack of information on total cost of mental illness in the Czech Republic, especially on social services financed by municipalities and private resources. In the health sector, the share of mental health...

The Czech Republic is a destination of huge direct foreign investments (FDI) in last ten years. FDI impact all basic macro-economic indicators - they affect economic expansion, price level progress, employment market also country outer economic standing. But real impression of FDI is far...

The Czech Economic Association, in co-operation with the Czech National Bank, organised a public seminar on ?The State of the Phillips Curve,? which featured a lecture by Professor Laurence Ball, in Prague in April 2001. Professor Ball, a professor of economics at John Hopkins University, began...

The minimum wage has been a controversial issue since 1912, when Massachusetts (USA) passed the first state minimum wage act. The Czech Republic has had a statutory national minimum wage since 1990 (Act no. 65/1965 Coll., or the Labour Code; the specific minimum wage levels and the conditions for...

In 1928 was appointed the last coalition democratic government which aim was to deal with growing economic problems of the Weimar republic. The so called "Great coalition" failed to come to agreement on solution of the most important questions: social policy, fiscal policy, reparations and the...