Abstract
The research conducted for my dissertation covers topics from labor economics and consists of three empirical papers. In the first chapter, co-authored with Michal Franta, we analyze the demand for tertiary education in the Czech Republic depending on university proximity.
The study explores the difference in the probability of entering tertiary education for two secondary school graduates who differ only in that the first one resides within commuting distance to a university while the other one does not. We presume that the advantage of having access to a local university follows in two ways: first, attending a non-local university is associated with costs, either for monetary or non-monetary reasons.
The second chapter demonstrates the existence of a welfare trap in the Czech Republic, created by the tax and social security systems. The third chapter presents the findings of the project I engaged in at the IZA.
It studies welfare migration in European countries.