In the past decade applications of the statistical methods for survival data analysis have been extended beyond biomedical and reliability research to other fields. The term survival data has been used in a broad sense for data involving time to a certain event such a failure, response, death...

The paper deals with one of the biggest problems currently faced by the Czech labour market: namely, a shortage of labour with regard to specialists who have completed tertiary education. The introduction stresses the importance of knowledge capital both in contemporary society and in a...