Details about Jiri Balcar

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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 IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2024)
   SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town (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 (20)

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)