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15.7.2015 The Guardian, Autor: Jan Svejnar
My research found that the myth of billionaires boosting the economy is untrue – particularly when they amassed their wealth from political connection.
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Upcoming Events
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Forthcoming studies:
Regional price differences
Employment in retirement age
The quality of primary and secondary school teachers
Employment of women in the financial sector
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The analysis identifies the risks and possible obstacles associated with faster increases in the statutory and effective retirement ages in the Czech Republic. The study provides the first detailed quantitative insight on the phenomena of retirement and old-age-related departures from the labour market in the Czech Republic, and employs unique, internationally comparable date from the SHARE survey.
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IDEA is looking for co-workers for the positions of junior researcher and post-doc/research associate in economics of innovation. More information about the position of junior researcher can be found here and more information about the position of post-doc here. If interested, please, send applications to blanka.javorova@cerge-ei.cz, cc: martin.srholec@cerge-ei.cz.
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Jan Švejnar wrote an article about wealth inequality and economic growth (Jun 5, 2015)
IDEA and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung cooperated on a fiscal seminar (Dec 11, 2014)
Vilém Semerák participated in a forum organized by Zlatá Koruna on the topic of Competitiveness (Dec 04, 2014)
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Highlights
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IDEA is proud to announce that Jan Švejnar, the founder and the director of IDEA, won the 2015 IZA Prize for labor economics. The press release is available here.
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