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Alena Bičáková |
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Contact
Details: 111
21 Prague 1 Czech
Republic Fax: + 420 224 005 333 E-mail: alena.bicakova@cerge-ei.cz |
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I am a Senior Researcher and a Deputy
Director of Graduate Studies at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy
of Sciences at CERGE-EI in Prague. I joined CERGE-EI in October 2007. Before I was
working as a Research Fellow at the Finance
and Consumption Programme at the European
University Institute (2005-2007). My Ph.D. thesis 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". My 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. My research listed at IDEAS / REPEC: https://ideas.repec.org/e/pbi88.html
My
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3801-0725 Scopus
Author ID: 47561154300 ResearcherID: H-2912-2014 |
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Publications |
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Bicakova, A. and Kaliskova, K.
(2024) “Is longer maternal care always beneficial? The impact of
a 4-year paid parental leave,” Journal of Population Economics, vol. 37,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01010-1 Bicakova, A., Cortes,
G.M. and Mazza, J. (2023) ‘Make your own luck: The wage gains from starting college
in a bad economy,’
Labour Economics, 84, 102411,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102411 Bicakova, A. and Kaliskova, K. (2022) ‘Career-Breaks and Maternal Employment in CEE Countries,’ book chapter in:
Molina, J.A. (eds) Mothers in the Labor
Market.
Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99780-9_8 Hamplova,
D. and Bicakova, A. (2022) “Choosing a Major and a Partner: Field of Study and Union
Formation Among College-Educated Women in Europe,” European Journal of Population,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-022-09621-8 Bicakova, A., Cortes, G.M. and Mazza, J. (2021) "Caught in the Cycle: Economic Conditions at Enrolment and Labour Market Outcomes of College Graduates," The Economic Journal, vol. 131(638) 2383-2412. (pre-proof version, IZA DP and other WP
versions below) Bicakova, A. and Kaliskova, K. (2019) “(Un)intended effects of parental leave
policies: Evidence from the Czech Republic” Labour
Economics, 61, 101747,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2019.07.003 Bicakova, A. (2017) “A Note on Selection
and Gender Unemployment Gaps”, Journal of Labor Research 38 (4)
428-438. Bicakova, A. (2016) “Gender Unemployment Gaps: Blame the Family”, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies (5) 22 1-31. Bicakova, A. and Kaliskova, K. (2016) “Výskyt a vznik nezaměstnanosti u žen s předškolními dětmi: případ České republiky”
(Occurrence and Rise of Unemployment of Women with Pre-School Children: the
Case of the Czech Republic), Politická ekonomie, 64(6) 695-712. Bicakova, A. and Jurajda, S. (2015) “Gender composition of college
graduates by field of study and early fertility”, Review of Economics of the Household, 15 (4) 1323-1342. Bicakova, A. (2014)
“The Trade-off between Unemployment and Wage Inequality Revisited”, Oxford Economic Papers, 66 (4) 891-915 Bicakova, A., Slacalek, J. and Slavik, M. (2011)
“Labor Supply after Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic,” Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a úvěr), 61(4) 327-347. Bicakova, A. (2008)
“Unemployment vs. inactivity: Why do we care about one but not the other?” in
Schweiger , G. and Sedmak,
C., eds. Perspectives on Work: Problems, Insights, Challenges, LIT publisher
group, Münster-Hamburg-London. Bicakova, A. (2007)
"Does the Good Matter? Evidence on Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
from Consumer Credit Market," Italian Economic Journal (formerly: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di
Economia), vol. 66, pp. 29–66. (Issue edited by T. Jappelli and G. Weber.) Bicakova, A. (2001)
"The Concept of Knowledge in Economics and the New Economics of
Science", Věda, technika
a společnost (Prague), 10 (23) 69-88. |
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Reports, Policy Briefs, Media Appearances |
The
benefits of starting college in a recession, LSE Business Review
10/2021
Nechtěné plody prorodinných politik, IDEA studie 12/2020 (with K. Kalíšková and L.
Zapletalová)
The
low-skilled in the Czech Republic, IDEA studie
3/2018 (with Klára Kalíšková)
Impact of Selected Labor Market Reforms on
Inequality 2015-2016 – Country
Report
Vrána k vráně sedá aneb důležitost
oboru studia při výběru partnera, IDEA studie
7/2017 (with Š. Jurajda and L. Zapletalová)
About Field-of-Study Homogamy paper (with Štěpán Jurajda) on voxeu.org.,
in Universitas, Týden, Globe24, Eurozprávy…
Od
mateřství k nezaměstnanosti:
Postavení žen s malými dětmi na trhu práce,
IDEA studie 10/2015 (with Klára
Kalíšková)
Citace
článku Gender Unemployment Gaps: Evidence from the New EU Member States.
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Working Papers |
”COVID-19
and Political Preferences Through Stages of the Pandemic: The Case of
the Czech Republic,” 2024. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series
wp778. (joint with Štěpán Jurajda)
“Make Your Own Luck: The Wage Gains
from Starting College in a Bad Economy,” 2023.
IZA Discussion Papers 16087, Institute for the
Study of Labor (IZA).
(joint with Matias Cortes and Jacopo Mazza)
[earlier version also as WP in CERGE-EI Working Paper
Series wp698]
“Career-breaks and Maternal Employment in CEE Countries,”
2021. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series
wp706.
(joint with Klára Kalíšková)
Working Paper series 18-32, Rimini Centre for Economic
Analysis (joint with Matias Cortes and Jacopo Mazza)
[also as a WP in CERGE-EI
Working Paper Series
No. 622]
“Career Breaks after Childbirth: The Impact of Family Leave
Reforms in the Czech Republic”,
2016. IZA Discussion Papers 10149, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(joint with Klára
Kalíšková)
[also as a WP in CERGE-EI
Working Paper Series
No. 568]
“Field-of-Study Homogamy”, 2016. IZA Discussion Papers 9844, Institute for the Study
of Labor (IZA) (joint with Štěpán Jurajda)
[also as a WP in CERGE-EI
Working Paper Series
No. 561] See the latest version.
“Selection
into Labor Force and Gender Unemployment Gaps”, 2014. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series wp513.
“The
Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and
Early
Fertility Patterns”,
2014. IZA Discussion Paper 7965, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). (joint
with Štěpán Jurajda)
“Gender
Unemployment Gaps in the EU: Blame the Family”, 2012. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series wp475.
“Who Borrows and Who May Not Repay?”, Working Papers 2010/10, Czech National Bank, Research
Department (joint with Zuzana Prelcová and Renata Pašaličová)
[also as a WP in CERGE-EI Working
Paper Series wp443]
"Self-control and debt: evidence from data on credit
counselling",
2010. Economics Series Working Papers 504, University of Oxford.(joint
with Nur Ata Nurcan)
“Gender
Unemployment Gaps: Evidence from the New EU Member States”, 2010. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series wp410.
SOEPpapers No. 90/2008, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel.
(joint with E. Sierminska).
”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)
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Work in
Progress |
“Does Longer Maternal Childcare Improve Children's Future
Outcomes? The Impact of a Four-year Paid Parental Leave”
(with Klára Kalíšková)