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Workplace:Ekonomická fakulta (Faculty of Economics), Vysoká Škola Báňská-Technická Univerzita Ostrava (VSB-Technical University Ostrava), (more information at EDIRC)

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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) Downloads
    Also in SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town (2024) Downloads
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2024) Downloads

    See also Journal Article How credit constrained are family-owned SMEs in Arab countries?, Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier (2025) Downloads (2025)

Journal Articles

2025

  1. How credit constrained are family-owned SMEs in Arab countries?
    Emerging Markets Review, 2025, 65, (C) Downloads
    Also in ERSA Working Paper Series, 2024 (2024) Downloads

    See also Working Paper How Credit Constrained are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?, GLO Discussion Paper Series (2025) Downloads (2025)

2024

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

2021

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

2019

  1. 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 Downloads View citations (5)

2018

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

2016

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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