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Labour market restrictions and migration flows in the European Union: the case of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine
Ducháč, Tomáš ; Strielkowski, Wadim (advisor) ; Jurajda, Štěpán (referee)
The thesis aims to estimate the future migration flows from Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova to the EU. Based on the experience of previous EU enlargements and econometric modelling using the method of Ordinary Least Squares with Fixed Effects, multiple forecasts are created. The forecasts capture the likely development of migration flows in the event of collapse of labour market restrictions as well as the case of no labour market liberalization. The results show that migration flows are expected to be moderate, posing no threats to the stability of the labour markets of EU member states. The increase of migration due to the accession to the EU is likely to be short-term, without substantial impacts in the long-run. Ukraine has the biggest migration potential and is likely to supply the highest amount of labour migration.
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Warsaw Treaty Organization 1969-1985. The pinnacle and path to dissolution
Bílý, Matěj ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee) ; Litera, Bohuslav (referee)
Ph.D. thesis abstract PhDr. Matěj Bílý The Ph.D. thesis "The Warsaw Treaty Organization 1969-1985. The pinnacle and path to dissolution" analyses inside processes within both political and military structures of the alliance and puts it in the context of the Cold War's development and the events in the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe. It deals mostly with the climax of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's rule, however, attention is paid also to the short intermezzo of his successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. The work is based on a broad research in the Czech, Polish and German archives, already published documents and the proper secondary literature. The explanation focuses not only to the development of the organization's mechanisms - it also asses the Warsaw Pact's role as one of the Kremlin's tools for managing the Eastern Bloc. Nonetheless, during Brezhnev's era, the alliance never became an initiator of processes within the Soviet sphere of interest. In fact, the organization's structures were not very initiative. The agenda of meetings was defined elsewhere, most often in Moscow. The activities in the alliance's framework did not constitute a starting-point for the development in the Soviet sphere of influence. On the contrary, the processes within the Warsaw Treaty Organization...
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Ethnicity Revisited: the Case of Higher Educated Younger Generation Roma in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
Remete, Anamaria ; Yasar, Abu Ghosh (advisor) ; Synková, Hana (referee) ; Militello, Paolo (referee)
Anamaria Remete TEMA EMMC 2nd year Ethnicity Revisited: the Case of Higher Educated Younger Generation Roma in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe Abstract This research aims to explore the self perception of ethnicity of younger generation Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. The sample population is represented by two groups of higher educated Roma. First those who were beneficiaries of the university scholarships granted by the Open Society Institute's Roma Initiatives. Second those who are working in Roma-focused NGO advocacy organizations. The organisations are: the Open Society Institute-Budapest, European Roma Rights Centre also in Budapest, the European Roma Information Office in Brussels and the European Roma and Travellers Forum by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . This strategy of the Open Society Institute and the above mentioned NGOs has only a short history, which will be discussed further in the study. The self perception dimension is going to be analyzed through the application of the concept of "everyday ethnicity" as developed by scholars Rogers Brubaker, Paloma Gay y Blasco and Carol Silverman in order to gain insight into the dynamics of the factors that come into play in the process of creating meaning for young and higher-educated Roma in countries from Central and Eastern...
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Conceptualizing Eastern Europe: Past and Present
Mačkinis, Vilius ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Kolenovská, Daniela (referee) ; Gordy, Eric (referee)
The ideas presented in the dissertation are based on the premise that the concept of Eastern Europe is a construction, which received its meaning(s) trough events and shifts, which also shaped the idea of Europe. To analyze these influences several labels and aspects of history, which constructed the concept of Eastern Europe can be recognized. The author argues that there can be five important aspects, forming the concept and providing meanings, discerned and considered: (1) geography associated with the Eastern border of the European continent and its flexibility; (2) cultural trends, mainly provided by the ideas of the Enlightenment, which present the eastern part as wild, barbaric and uncivilized; (3) political formations, which by military and political means conquered or lost the region, alienating it with the West or making it a 'buffer zone'; (4) Economic aspects of backwardness and the constant try to catch-up with the West; and (5) the discourse about the region itself, historiography depicting the formations and ascribing labels to discourse. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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EU Policy towards Eastern Partnership Countries. A Gap between Goals and Achievements
Mammadova, Gunel ; Plechanovová, Běla (advisor) ; Kučerová, Irah (referee)
This study seeks to examine and assess the effectiveness of the Eastern Partnership Policy (EaP) of the European Union. Beside introduction of positive novelties of the Eastern Partnership, this paper gives a premium attention to scrutinize the possible limitations and shortfalls of EaP. Hence, the study aims to analyze some internal and external factors that complicate the effective functioning of the EaP. The inconsistency of the EU policy structure, the role of Russia and its Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) in EAP, the ambivalent policy of some Member States (Germany and Italy are examined) toward the EaP, unconsidered discrepancy of eastern partners are analyzed and considered as prime reasons of ineffectiveness. In addition, examined case studies of Ukraine and Azerbaijan reveal that the EU's commitment to their "shared values" are controversial. This paper presents that the EU should find a balance between its economic/energy interests and normative values vis-a-vis Eastern Partners in order to fill the gap between its goals and achievements.
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Female employment evolution in the Czech Republic and Germany in years 1993 - 2015
Kolevska, Zoja ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Bartůsková, Lucia (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with employment of women. Comparison of employment development in the Czech Republic and the FRG in the years 1993 to 2015 enables consultation and understanding this complex topic and its specific features on the observed territory. The thesis also analyzes related topics, e.g. changes of parental allowance in the Czech Republic, Elternsgeld and Elternszeit in the FRG, reconciling work and family life in the context of part-time contracts etc. The last part of the thesis compares findings and their substantiation based on the EUROSTAT data. The impact of former long-term belonging to the Eastern Bloc was confirmed during the writing of this thesis as still observable within employment of women.
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Trade openness and income inequality in Eastern Europe
Krčma, Matěj ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Klosová, Anna (referee)
The goal of the master thesis titled "Trade openness and income inequality in Eastern Europe" is to analyze the effects on income inequality changes in the population in the period of transformation from centrally planned economies to market economies in the last decade of the twentieth century. The first part of the thesis focuses on the development before the individual countries started to join the European Union. The subsequent liberalization in the early 21st century is evaluated in the second part of the thesis. The multiple regression analysis is used to estimate the effects. The data were provided by the World Bank for the period of from 1989 to 2014. The objective of the thesis is to enlighten the factors which are influencing the changes in income inequality.
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Electronic Payment Systems in the Eastern Europe
Achatov, Igor ; Mészáros, Jan (advisor) ; Buchalcevová, Alena (referee)
This paper analyzes the electronic payment systems (EPS) market in the Eastern European countries. The main objective is to analyze the important and currently most popular electronic payment systems in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, to provide an overview of all the technical, financial and other options that these systems offer, to create comparable characteristics of the analyzed systems and to compile recommendations and helpful instructions for implementing user or merchant solutions. Another objective is to analyze security technologies used by today's EPS, including solutions of related problems and risk reductions, and provide useful recommendations. The paper is divided into three parts: the first attends to analysis of Russian EPS, examines history of development of EPS and the prospects of Russian payment systems market, also provides detailed analysis of currently most popular EPS in Russia; the second section attends to analysis of EPS markets of Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia; in the third part all of the analyzed systems are compared in terms of various criteria and characteristics. The final part of the paper also analyses the issues of EPS security and features methods and ways of solving security related problems. The information provided by the paper can be useful to EPS users and customers, merchants intending to conduct business using electronic payment systems in Eastern Europe, developers and web programmers. The outcome and recommendations of the paper may be used for further analytic, statistical and other purposes.
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The strategy of business in clothing industry
ŠALAMOUN, Jan
I directed my project at strategic development in textile industry. I worked the project at an example of the company Prima Moda, s. r. o., which has headquarters in Cesky Krumlov. The textile industry can not compete with other branches. Although nowadays the textile industry has automated production already, people have to work by hands. There are high wage cost. It caused, that in developed states the companies canceled production and they transferred it to Eastern Europe.
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