Štepán Jurajda

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CERGE-EI

Stepan.Jurajda@cerge-ei.cz

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Štepán Jurajda is Professor and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee at CERGE-EI, Prague, where served as Director during 2009-2013. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1997. During 1999-2000, he was Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University, Department of Economics. Between 2005 and 2010, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists. He has been a member of the National Economic Council of the Government of the Czech Republic, and also served as Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Innovation of the Czech Republic and as Vice-Chairman of the Research, Development and Innovation Council of the Government of the Czech Republic.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2000.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15749

Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage

Geghetsik Afunts, Štepán Jurajda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15130

Social Networks and Surviving the Holocaust

Matěj Bělín, Tomáš Jelínek, Štepán Jurajda

part of the analysis published as 'Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023, 120 (29), e2221654120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14191

Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Jakub Grossmann, Štepán Jurajda, Felix Roesel

published online in: American Journal of Political Science, 26 January 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14124

Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants

Orley Ashenfelter, Štepán Jurajda

published in: Journal of Labor Economics (special issue in honor of Alan Krueger), 2022, 40 (S1), S179 - S201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10331

What's in a Name in a War

Štepán Jurajda, Dejan Kovač

Journal of Population Economics 2021, 34(1), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9844

Field-of-Study Homogamy

Alena Bicakova, Štepán Jurajda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8691

Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case

Štepán Jurajda, Daniel Münich

published in: PostSoviet Affairs, 2015, 31 (5), 448-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7965

The Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns

Alena Bicakova, Štepán Jurajda

revised version published as 'Gender Composition of College Graduates by Field of Study and Early Fertility' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (4), 1323-1343 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3176

Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (2), 241–274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2303

Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe

Štepán Jurajda, Teodora Paligorova

published as "Czech Female Managers and their Wages" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 342-351