Martina Chrančoková

Slovak Academy of Sciences | SAV · Institute for Forecasting

This paper analyses the links between the competences acquired via international migration, and the tacit versus explicit knowledge which are encapsulated in these. Whereas most research in this area utilises qualitative methods, this paper utilises a mixed methods approach. It draws on an online quantitative survey of the skills and competences ac...

The paper analyses financial indicators of 550 R&I-intensive Slovak firms receiving support from the European Structural and Cohesion Funds (SF and CF) in the period 2009-2014. The research tests the hypothesis that assistance from the SF and CF improves economic performance of the supported firms. The research combines data from public and private...

The research analyses the performance of active labour market policies (ALMP) in Slovakia in 2007-2017. We found limited evidence of the economic efficiency of the ALMP in Slovakia. We quantify the relative importance of the ALMP compared to other factors for the employability of job seekers. ALMP performance relates to a host of external factors,...

This paper aims to explore how human capital is built and transferred via international migration. The paper is based on data from a large-scale survey with 30,000 participants from nine European countries. The survey examined several skills and competences acquired via international migration: self-confidence, learning to adapt to new cultures, ab...

Student migration represents the major form of international human capital training and has significant implications for knowledge transfer and economic development, but its highly uneven geography remains relatively underresearched. This paper addresses two gaps in the research literature. First, it provides a temporal perspective by analysing int...

This article explores the relationships between person-centred, competence-based, and culturally-determined risk-taking on the one hand and attitudes to international travel and migration on the other. We based the research on a sample of 540 young people, aged nineteen to thirty-five years, from nine European countries. This study firstly examines...

YMOBILITY - Youth mobility: maximizing opportunities for individuals, labour markets and regions in Europe

The article focuses on the student internal mobility with the emphasis on the analysis of their movement within Europe during the period from 1998 until 2012; analysed period is divided into three five-year periods: 1998-2002, 2003-2007, 2008-2012. The subject of the analysis is the number of specific flows of foreign students with the level of ter...