Alena Bičáková

Contact Details: CERGE-EI Politickych veznu 7 Praha 1, 111 21 Czech Republic Phone: + 420 224 005 200 Fax: + 420 224 005 333 E-mail: alena.bicakova@cerge-ei.cz

Research Interests

Teaching

Publications and Working Papers

Work in Progress

Curriculum Vitae

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Alena Bičáková joined CERGE-EI as an Assistant Professor in October 2007. Before she was working as a Research Fellow at the Finance and Consumption Programme at the European University Institute (2005-2007). Her Ph.D. project, pursued at the Johns Hopkins University and defended in Fall 2005, focused "On the Distribution of Earnings and Labor Force Status: The Case of France, the UK and the US at the End of the 20th Century". Her previous work includes research on the effect of minimum wage on welfare recipiency, the effect of welfare benefits on family structure, the impact of wage flexibility on the distribution of non-employed between unemployment and inactivity and adverse selection and moral hazard in consumer credit market.

Research Interests:

• Labor supply and labor force status classification (unemployment versus inactivity)
• Labor market institutions, wage rigidity, and the trade-off hypothesis
• Adverse selection and moral hazard in consumer credit markets
• Self-control and consumer credit counseling
• Household portfolios inequality and access to credit

Teaching

• Labor and Public Economics II (Spring 2009)

• Econometrics II (Summer 2009)

Publications and Working Papers:

• “Mortgage Market Maturity and Homeownership Inequality among Young Households : A Five-Country Perspective”, 2008.

SOEPpapers No. 90/2008, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel. (joint with Eva Sierminska).

• “Unemployment vs. inactivity: Why do we care about one but not the other?” forthcoming in Schweiger , G. and Sedmak, C., eds., 2008.

Perspectives on Work: Problems, Insights, Challenges, LIT publisher group, Münster-Hamburg-London.

• "Does the Good Matter? Evidence on Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection from Consumer Credit Market," 2007.

Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, vol. 66, pp. 29–66.

(Papers from the “Second Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics”, edited by T. Jappelli and G. Weber)

available as Economics Working Papers ECO 2007/2, European University Institute. (pdf)

• "Market vs. Institutions: The Trade-off Between Unemployment and Wage Inequality Revisited", 2006.

Economics Working Papers ECO 2006/31, European University Institute.

• "Fiscal Implications of Personal Tax Adjustments in the Czech Republic", 2006.

Working Papers 2006/6, Czech National Bank, Research Department. (joint with Jiří Slačálek and Michal Slavík)

• "Unemployment Versus Inactivity: An Analysis of the Earnings and Labor Force Status of Prime Age Men in France, the UK, and the US at the End of the 20th Century", 2005. Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 412.

• "The Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Welfare Recipiency: Another Look", 2003. Joint Center for Poverty Research WP No. 328.

(joint with M.D. Turner)

• "The Concept of Knowledge in Economics and the New Economics of Science", 2001. Věda, technika a společnost (Prague), 10 (23) 69-88.

Work in Progress:

· “Do Women Face Less Jobs and Lower Pay, or Is There a Trade-off? Evidence on Gender Gaps in the European Labor Markets”

• “Gender Unemployment Gaps: Evidence from the New EU Member States”
• “Self control and debt: Evidence from Data on Credit Counselling” (joint with Nur Ata)

• "Effect of Welfare Benefits on Family Structure: The Jackson-Klerman Study" (joint with Robert Moffitt, draft 2003)
• "Income and the Effect of Health on Elderly Employment in Taiwan" (joint with Eva Sierminska and Jack Chang)

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