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Working Papers

2025

1. How Credit Constrained are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
   Also in SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town (2024)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2024)
   See also Journal Article How credit constrained are family-owned SMEs in Arab countries?, Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier (2025) (2025)

Journal Articles

2025

1. How credit constrained are family-owned SMEs in Arab countries?
   Emerging Markets Review, 2025, 65, (C)
   Also in ERSA Working Paper Series, 2024 (2024)
   See also Working Paper How Credit Constrained are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?, GLO Discussion Paper Series (2025) (2025)

2024

2. Networking Increases the Probability of Women’s Start-Ups in EMDEs
   Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60, (7), 1071-1087
3. Psychological traits and wages in the Czech Republic
   Prague Economic Papers, 2024, 2024, (1), 79-102

2021

4. Non-cognitive skills matter, beauty not that much: Evidence from hiring technicians
   Journal of East European Management Studies, 2021, 26, (1), 44-72 View citations (1)
5. Urban environmental quality and out-migration intentions
   The Annals of Regional Science, 2021, 66, (3), 579-607 View citations (1)

2019

6. Influence of female managers on gender wage gap and returns to cognitive and non‐cognitive skills
   Gender, Work and Organization, 2019, 26, (5), 722-737 View citations (5)

2018

7. Soft Skills of Czech Graduates
   Review of Economic Perspectives, 2018, 18, (1), 45-60 View citations (1)

2016

8. Is it better to invest in hard or soft skills?
   The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2016, 27, (4), 453-470 View citations (18)

2014

9. Soft Skills and Their Wage Returns: Overview of Empirical Literature
   Review of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 14, (1), 3-15 View citations (18)
10. What General Competencies Are Required from the Czech Labour Force?
    Prague Economic Papers, 2014, 2014, (2), 250-265 View citations (11)

2013

11. Soft Competencies in Bulgaria
    Economic Alternatives, 2013, (2), 88-99

2012

12. Gender Wage Gap in the Czech Republic: First Descriptive Analysis Based on Survey 2011
    Review of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 12, (3), 151-167 View citations (4)
13. Supply Side Wage Determinants: Overview of Empirical Literature
    Review of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 12, (4), 207-222 View citations (2)
14. The “Soft Five” in Romania
    Romanian Economic Journal, 2012, 15, (43), 23-44 View citations (2)