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This paper analyzes the impact of immigration on the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic between 2004-2014 by using the economically active population aged 15-64 and 15-19. The analysis of annual time series showed no significant effect for either age group as well the existence of the reverse causality between the rate of migration and the unemployment rate was not proved. The analysis of quarterly time series showed a significant negative impact of immigration on the unemployment rate of economically active people aged 15-64. Also the reverse causality was confirmed - lagged values of the unemployment rate negatively influenced the rate of migration. A significant positive impact of the immigration on the unemployment rate was not confirmed for the age group 15-19. The reverse causality of the unemployment rate in relation to the rate of migration was found - rising unemployment rate led to decrease of immigration flows.

The aim of my bachelor´s thesis is to analyse the impact of increasing minimum wage on unemployment of the population and selected demographic groups in the Czech Republic. The constant increase of minimum wage in recent years has given novelty to the job, it is necessary to analyse its impact on the economy. Theoretical part contains three units. The first one describes conclusions of previous studies from the Czech Republic and abroad. The second unit describes models of labor market, especially monopsonistic competition and heterogeneous job. The third part deals with arguments of protagonists and opponents of minimum wage. Within empirical part, I create 4 models where I apply Ordinary Least Squares. Significant and positive impact of increasing minimum wage on unemployment is confirmed among people aged 20-24. The impact of increasing minimum wage on employment of people aged 15-19, elementary educated people or the whole population is not significant.

This thesis analyses how the work experience acquired during the university studies influences the starting salary of graduates. The first part is theoretical, mainly based on the Theory of Human Capital and the Screening theory. The data source for the second (practical) part of this thesis is a REFLEX research, which was performed in the Czech Republic in 2005. The regression analysis was used to prove the expected relationship between the graduate's salary level and an amount of work experience gained during their studies. It was proved that every year spent at work during the studies increases the future salary by 3%. However, there is no difference in the starting salary level between graduates who were working in their study field and those who were not.

The thesis focuses on income inequality. It examines the occurrence of income inequality in the European Union and analyzes its causes through fixed effect method and three robustness tests among 23 countries between years 2005 -- 2013. The causes are divided into social demographic factors, labor market factors and factors of the globalization. The thesis confirms the influence of tertiary education on income distribution which is negatively correlated with Gini coefficient. The number of people aged 65 and older, together with the number of single households within the entire population, correlates positively with the income inequality level. Furthermore, the following factors turned out to be significant: the occurrence of part-time job contracts and labor taxation. The amount of temporary employees causes income inequality to decrease which is in contrast with the theoretical premise.

This diploma thesis analyzes the impact of education on unemployment of citizens of the Czech Republic. It utilizes data from the ISSP international survey between years 1994-2012. The main assumption of this work is that education reduces the likelihood of individual's unemployment. This hypothesis is confirmed by using the Probit method, in several models accompanied also by the instrumental variable approach. The instrumental variable method helps to identify the causal effect of education on unemployment. Results show that education has greater impact on women. Each additional year of schooling reduces the likelihood of a woman's unemployment by 1 percentage point and likelihood of a man's unemployment by 0.75 percentage points. In additional models, education is measured by highest reached level rather than years of schooling. Results confirm that the probability of unemployment is lower for people with higher level of education than for others.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the determinants of unemployment in Ústecký region. The panel data for 7 regional districts from period 2005 -- 2013 with total of 63 observations were used to construct the econometric model estimate. The model included variables from demographic and economic characteristic of the region. Real gross average wage, share of women in population and share of foreigners in population have been found the most significant. Comparative models of male and female unemployment proved, that male unemployment is more sensitive to wage change as well as to share of foreigners in population. Education variable had to be withdrawn from the model due to high multicollinearity, therefore it was tested on a separate model, which proved the negative relationship between share of tertiary educated population and share of unemployed.

This paper examines wage discrimination against women in the labor market and the impact of marriage on their earnings. Married women are looking for work which is less time consuming and physically demanding and it is possible to combine childcare and household, leading to lower earnings. The paper used cross-sectional data for the Czech Republic from the web survey WageIndicator for 2011 and 2012. Using the ordinary least squares method is found marriage penalty in the amount of 8 - 10 %. Results of my study suggest that place of work or foreign ownership of companies, where the woman works, significantly influences the level of wages.

This thesis deals with the determination of the player labour market for the American professional sports league Major League Soccer (MLS). In the theoretical part I focus on the description of the league's development along with the salary politics rules. Using the two stages least square method in the empirical part I then provide the model for the estimation of player's marginal productivity (MRP). In the first step I explain the correlation between the percentages of obtained points by teams with player statistics. In the second step I examine the influence of this variable along with other factors on team's revenues from attendance. Afterwards I compare the calculated player's MRP with their salaries and also test some additional factors that might influence players' salaries. Using this model and also some other simple regressions I conclude that MLS labour market is a monopsony market structure. Besides I found out that forwarders market seems to be the closest part of the MLS labour market to the competitive market structure. In conclusion I discuss possible model's weaknesses, which turned out to be especially dependency of players on their co-players' on-field performance.

This paper aims to explain the factors that affect wages and its size. Analytical method for this explanation is Mincerian's earnings function and its extensions and variations, estimated using the metod of generalized least squares. These earnings functions are constructed from the data of the labor market of the Czech Republic, specifically from the statistical survey of the Information System on Average Earnings of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Czech republic. The main finding of this work is that an additional year of education leads to an increase in worker's wages by about 8%, so education is one of the factors on which wages depend. Other factors may also be practical worker, age or gender. The results show the estimated function of the fact that women in the Czech Republic are wages by 15 to 20% less than men. Also a great impact on wages is fact that the worker is at work at a managerial position or not.

In recent years, temporary help industry has been associated with the rapid growth in world markets. Temporary help agencies, which supply a flexible workforce to client companies, are undergoing significant development. This paper examines the nature of temporary help industry in the Czech market, focusing on the factors driving the industry's growth. This sector is examined from three perspectives (demand side, supply side and legislative) using a questionnaire survey carried out in the June-August 2011. The results confirm that in the Czech Republic, as well as in the world, is the main reason for cooperation of companies with temporary help agencies the requirement of temporal flexibility. But compared to Europe-wide trend, in our market there is a greater appeal for the regulatory flexibility. The biggest disincentive of the development of temporary help industry is strict legislative conditions.

With regard to the women's position on the labor market the aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine if the labor market regulation is efficient or not. The work compares opposing approaches of neoclassical law and economics and institutional law and economics to this matter including concrete proceedings in favour of equal opportunity of women and men. Concerning the persistence of unequal treatment of women and men on the labor market the work judges the notion that free markets act against discrimination. Another objective is to compare and decompose antidiscrimination law relevant to labor markets in EU and Czech Republic.

The topic of my bachelors work is the prognosis of the demographical development of the population in the Czech Republic and its' future effect on employment, the labor market and the resulting economical impacts on the economy of the Czech Republic. A significant component will be the engagement of the migration of foreign inhabitants into the Czech Republic and related to this, the importance of programs for simpler adaptation of foreign human capital in our conditions. With regards to the expected aging of the population of the Czech Republic, the foreign work force will be incorporated as one of the factors influencing employment, the future of labor markets in the Czech Republic and the development of domestic product. I will include the views and economical studies of prominent economists in my work. In the conclusion I will concentrate on the complete summarization of my achieved results and their comparison to research and to data measured by the Czech Statistical Bureau.

This work is concerned with Human Capital Theory. Part of the work is concentrate on evolution of Theory in economic throught, than author explains what the term Human Capital means. Critique of Human Capital, investments in Human Capital and also Human Capital at labor market are described. The work is finished by Human Capital and economic growth.