The chapter evaluates the Slovak experience with impact of innovations in financing public higher education institutions. During the last decade, the government implemented an evolving funding formula for the higher education to steer universities towards outputs and outcomes desired by...

The article explores economics of public rental housing policy in Slovakia. Our principal research question is: why has construction of such housing not succeeded in activating rental market and labour mobility? The secondary question is: does the policy ensure that public housing projects are...

The paper “Making the State Work: Lessons from 20 Years of Public Administration Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union” reviews literature analysing more than 20 years transition in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with the main...

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...

This paper looks at the Slovak experience with euro adoption from the point of view of perceived versus actual inflation and with a focus on a specific set of non-tradable prices. It examines whether Slovak consumers experienced or perceived (or both) an unusual price jump at the time of euro...

Differences between the welfare states within the European Union are a perennial topic. The recent enlargement brought the new member states into the picture. The paper looks at differences between the new and the old member states as groups as well as within the new member state group. It...

The paper reviews issues related to accession of the EU New Member States to the Eurozone. The paper was written before the global financial and economic crisis, but much of it it still relevant even for the post-crisis world

In a globalized world, knowledge of foreign languages is an important skill. Especially in Europe, with its 24 official languages and its countless regional and minority languages, foreign language skills are a key asset in the labor market. Earlier research shows that over half of the EU27...