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The expected impacts of the 2015 tax reform
Dušek, Libor ; Kalíšková, Klára ; Münich, Daniel
This study provides the first and unique evaluation of the impact of the reform of direct taxes, ie taxes on personal income and insurance levy, which was approved by Parliament in 2011 and without the intervention of a new government and the House of Commons after early elections automatically come into effect from January 1, 2015.
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To be or not to be a teacher: Czech teachers’ salaries from an opportunity costs perspective in a broader context
Münich, Daniel ; Straka, Jan
In this paper we present new evidence on how very low the teaching profession’s wage attractiveness is in primary and secondary schools in the Czech Republic. We show that 70-90% of university educated employees receive higher salaries than an average teacher. Teachers with 15 years’ experience earn only half of what their university educated peers do. The low financial attractiveness of the teaching profession is reflected in the low interest among young people, especially talented ones, in becoming teachers. We present our findings within a broader and longerterm economic context, showing the causal chain from the level of motivation to become a teacher, to the quality of teachers, quality of education, level of education of the population and, as a result, the long-term growth of the economy and the country’s well-being in general.
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Evaluation Principles: Effective evaluation and financing system for research, development and innovation
Münich, Daniel
The objective of Ipn project “Effective evaluation and financing system for research, development and innovation“) is to replace from 2015 the existing Methodology of evaluating the results achieved by research institutions with a more effective system of institutional evaluation based on the international quality standards. The new evaluation in the form of informed peer-review will reflect the Ipn Audit recommendations as well as Long Term Evaluation Principles adopted by RVVI (Research, Development and Innovations Council). The new system will combine quantitative and qualitative evaluation of outputs and contributions of the creative activity of research institutions with clear and future oriented indicators in order to facilitate evaluation of their development dynamics, evaluate their outputs from the point of view of their quality, relevance, impact and effectiveness while respecting the departmental and institutional differences. It should enable periodic evaluation of the performance of Czech Research, Development and Innovation system as a whole and of its individual components in comparison with the global standards. The evaluation results should facilitate strategic management on the level of public administration as well as on the level of individual institutions and their departments. The evaluation process should be resistant to nepotism and should be supported by high quality international expert evaluators and bibliometrical criteria.
Slides: idr-465_1 -  PDF
Video: idr-465_2 -  MP4
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Where is the best research in the Czech Republic?
Jurajda, Štěpán ; Münich, Daniel
In the Czech Republic, a system of research and development (R&D) evaluation, which offers useful and adequate comparison of outputs across research workplaces and scientific fields, and which helps indentifying research excellence, remains missing. Therefore, there is a lack of information on where high-quality research is concentrated, which is necessary for efficient governance of the R&D system. Despite the Council for Research, Development and Innovation maintains a comprehensive database of R&D outputs, on the base of which an in-depth evaluation is clearly possible to perform in most scientific fields, the existing evaluations use this data far below its potential. To help in closing this gap, we used this database to conduct a relatively simple but comprehensive overview of R&D outputs of research organizations. The database allows us to derive a relatively objective criteria for the identification of workplaces with the highest concentration of excellent research outputs and at the same time reveal the amount of research published in scientific journals by scientific fields. The study has three main goals: i) To provide the academic community as well as the broader public with previously non-existent comparison of the extent of excellent scientific results in workplaces financed by public resources within scientific fields, (ii) To shed a light on the advantages, pitfalls and limitations of bibliometric analyses for the purposes of evaluation of research workplaces and scientific fields, and (iii) To draw attention to the serious flaws in the current evaluation mechanism which is central in the system of R&D governance in the Czech Republic.
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