Miroslav Beblavy

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Senior Research Fellow

1 Place du Congres

Brussels, 1000

Belgium

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Scholarly Papers (57)

1.

Five Things We Need to Know About the On-Demand Economy

CEPS Essay, No. 21/8 January 2016
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Jan 2016
Ilaria Maselli, Karolien Lenaerts and Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), CEPS and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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on-demand economy, Uber, Airbnb

Slovakia's Transition to a Market Economy and the World Bank's Engagement

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Jan 2010
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Slovakia's Transition to a Market Economy and the World Bank's Engagement

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Education Policy and Welfare Regimes in OECD Countries: Social Stratification and Equal Opportunity in Education

CEPS Working Document No. 357
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Slovak Governance Institute
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Useless Degrees of Useless Statistics? A Comparison of the Net Present Value of Higher Education by Field of Study in Five European Countries

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy, Sophie Lehouelleur and Ilaria Maselli
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Innovations in Financing Higher Education in Slovakia

INNOVATIONS IN FINANCING PUBLIC SERVICES: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES, p. 160, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, August 2010
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 Sep 2011
Miroslav Beblavy, Peter Mederly and Emilia Beblava
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Comenius University and Comenius University
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higher education, financing, Slovakia, public services

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Understanding the Waves of Agencification and the Governance Problems They Have Raised in Central and Eastern European Countries

OECD Journal on Budgeting, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 121-139, 2001
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Sep 2011
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Agencification, Central and Eastern Europe, Transition

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New Welfare State Models Based on the New Member States' Experience?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8555
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Oct 2014
Slovak Governance Institute, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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internet, job, labour market, matching, methodology, occupation, online, representativeness, vacancy

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The Importance of Foreign Language Skills in the Labour Markets of Central and Eastern Europe: An Assessment Based on Data from Online Job Portals

CEPS Special Report, No. 129 (2016)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Jan 2016
Miroslav Beblavy, Brian Fabo and Karolien Lenaerts
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), National Bank of Slovakia and CEPS
Downloads 171 (335,858)
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labor market, foreign language, EU, Visegrad

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Qualifications or Soft Skills? Studying Job Advertisements for Demand for Low-Skilled Staff in Slovakia

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. D. 4.3.3
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Lucia Kureková, Miroslav Beblavy and Corina Haita
Central European University (CEU), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Central European University (CEU)
Downloads 156 (363,072)
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Labour Relations and Modes of Employment

NEUJOBS Policy Brief D6.6
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 23 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2017
Leiden University - Leiden Law School, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Leiden Law School - Department of Economics, University of Mannheim - Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim - Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Leiden Law School - Department of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovak Governance Institute, Esri, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland, University of the West of Scotland and Economic and Social Research Institute Dublin
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Labour market policy, innovation, employment protection legislation, labour relations, Central and Eastern European countries

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Preferential Voting and Party-Electorate Relationship in Slovakia

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Jun 2011
Miroslav Beblavy and Marcela Veselkova
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Slovak Governance Institute
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preferential voting, Slovakia, party-electorate relationship

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Comparative Analysis of Determinants and Effects of Social Protection Spending in the New EU Member States

SOCIAL SECURITY, POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN RICH AND POORER COUNTRIES, pp. 113-132, Intersentia Publishing, 2010
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 30 Sep 2011
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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social expenditure, social policy models, welfare regimes, transition, Central and Eastern Europe

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Happiness and the Welfare State in Slovakia

Greve, B. (2010) Happiness and Social Policy in Europe, Edward Elgar, 2010
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Nov 2012
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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welfare state, happiness, Slovakia

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Expansion of Higher Education and Declining Quality of Degrees

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 4.4.2 B
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Mar 2014
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), European University Institute - Economics Department (ECO) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Let's Get to Work! The Future of Labour in Europe

Beblavý, Μ., Maselli, Ι. & Veselkova, Μ. (2014) "Let’s get to Work! The Future of Labour in Europe", Economic Policy, CEPS Paperbacks, 10 July.
Number of pages: 267 Posted: 30 Jul 2014
Miroslav Beblavy, Ilaria Maselli and Marcela Veselkova
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Slovak Governance Institute
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Labour, Labour Economics, Education

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European Union Influence on Institutional Lock-In in the Countries in Transition

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Jan 2010
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Demand for Low- and Medium-Skilled Workers Across Europe: Between Formal Qualifications and Non-Cognitive Skills

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 4.3.3
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Slovak Governance Institute, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Central European University (CEU) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Linking Labour Regimes and Technological Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Automotive and Software Industries

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 6.2
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
University of the West of Scotland, University of Mannheim - Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), University of Mannheim - Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and Slovak Governance Institute
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20.

Management of Civil Service Reform in Central Europe

Gabor Peteri (eds.) (2002) Mastering Decentralization & Public Administration Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, LGI.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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civil service reform, Central Eastern Europe

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Preferential Voting and the Party-Electorate Relationship in Slovakia

Party Politics, (2014) Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 521-532
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Miroslav Beblavy and Marcela Veselkova
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Slovak Governance Institute
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preferential voting, Slovakia, party-electorate relationship

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From Selectivity to Universalism: The Political Economy of Pro-Equality Educational Reform

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 4.5.2
Number of pages: 225 Posted: 07 May 2014
Miroslav Beblavy and Marcela Veselkova
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Slovak Governance Institute
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Into the First League: The Competitive Advantage of the Antivirus Industry in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Competition and Change, Vol. 18 No. 5, October 2014, 421–37
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Sep 2014
Miroslav Beblavy and Lucia Mytna Kurekova
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Slovak Governance Institute
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antivirus industry, competitive advantage, innovation, Slovakia, human capital

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Public Rental Housing as Middle-Class Entitlement? Economic Analysis of the Slovak Public Rental Housing Policy

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Miroslav Beblavy and Emilia Beblava
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Comenius University
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Housing policy, Social Housing, Slovakia

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Labour Relations in Central and Eastern Europe

NEUJOBS State of the Art Report No. 3/D 6.1
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy, Jan Drahokoupil, Juraj Draxler and Martin Myant
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), University of Mannheim - Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and University of the West of Scotland
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Is the Corruption in the New Member States Converging with the Rest of EU: An Empirical Investigation

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jan 2010
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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corruption, Central and Eastern Europe, convergence

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Where and When Does Adult Learning Happen? A Cohort Analysis of Adult Education Acquisition in Europe

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Bank of England
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Ekonomické efekty elektronických aukcií na Slovensku (Economic Effects of Electronic Auctions in Slovakia)

Ekonomický časopis, Vol 61, No. 10, 2013
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Mar 2014
Emilia Beblava, Peter Klatik and Miroslav Beblavy
Comenius University, Independent and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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electronic auctions, public procurement, public sector

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Do Acquaintances and Friends Make Us Learn? Social Capital and Lifelong Learning in Germany

Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel Papers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 673
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jul 2014
Anna‐Elisabeth Thum and Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Downloads 70 (630,274)

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Education and Social Protection Policies in OECD Countries: Social Stratification and Policy Intervention

Journal of European Social Policy 23(5) 487-503 (2013)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Jan 2015
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Slovak Governance Institute
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PISA, school-level socio-economic gradients, stratification, trade-off thesis, welfare typology

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Being and Becoming Low-Skilled: A Comprehensive Approach to Studying Low-Skillness

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 4.3.1
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Lucia Mytna Kurekova, Corina Haita and Miroslav Beblavy
Slovak Governance Institute, Central European University (CEU) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Conceptualizing Low-Skillness: A New Approach

Sociológia 45, 2013, No. 3
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Lucia Mytna Kurekova, Corina Haita and Miroslav Beblavy
Slovak Governance Institute, Central European University (CEU) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Issues and Problems Related to Eurozone Entry of the New Accession Countries: An Analytical Review

TRAVAILS OF THE EUROZONE: ECONOMIC POLICIES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, p. 271, David Cobham, ed., Palgrave Macmilan, 2007
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Euro, accession, eurozone, Central and Eastern Europe

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Obstacles to Open and Honest Government: An Overview of Corruption: Corruption as a Problem (Ethical, Moral, Economic and Political) Affecting the Whole Society

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Mar 2014
Daniela Zemanovičová, Emilia Beblava and Miroslav Beblavy
Transparency International, Comenius University and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Prístupy k definovaniu korupcie (Approaches to Corruption Definition)

Sociológia 39, 2007
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Mar 2014
Emilia Beblava and Miroslav Beblavy
Comenius University and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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corruption, definitions, bribes, incentives

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Making the State Work: Lessons from 20 Years of Public Adminsitration Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 06 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2016
Miroslav Beblavy and Emilia Beblava
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Comenius University
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The Political Economy of Comprehensive Social Policy Reform and Emergence of a Social Policy Paradigm: The Case of Slovakia

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Faktory ovplyvňujúce rozhodovanie o spôsobe zabezpečovania služieb vo veľkých slovenských mestách (Factors Influencing Decisions on Services Provision in Major Slovak Cities)

Politická Ekonomie, 2, 2007
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Mar 2014
Emilia Beblava and Miroslav Beblavy
Comenius University and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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public services, municipality, Slovakia

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Workplace Innovation and Technological Change

CEPS Special Report No. 65
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 05 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy, Ilaria Maselli and Elisa Martellucci
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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When Do Adults Learn? A Cohort Analysis of Adult Education in Europe

CEPS Working Document No. 383
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Mar 2014
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Bank of England
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Conditions for Effective Large-Scale Anticorruption Efforts and the Role of External Actors: What Does the Slovak Experience Tell Us?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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corruption, anti-corruption, transition, Slovakia

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Does the Growth in Higher Education Mean a Decline in the Quality of Degrees? The Role of Economic Incentives to Increase College Enrolment Rates

CEPS Working Paper No. 405
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Mar 2015
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), European University Institute - Economics Department (ECO) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Downloads 40 (807,823)
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higher education; degree quality; enrolment rates; economic incentives

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Lessons from the Expansion of the Upper Secondary Education for the Expansion of the Tertiary Education

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 4.4.1
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Mar 2014
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Slovak Governance Institute, European University Institute, Stockholm University - Department of Social Work, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Why Has the Crisis Been Bad for Private Pensions, But Good for the Flat Tax? The Sustainability of ‘Neoliberal’ Reforms in the New EU Member States

CEPS Working Document No. 356
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Central Bankers and Central Bank Independence

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 50, No. 1, February 2003
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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central bankers, central bank, independence

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Should there be Rage against the Machine? Testing the Routinisation Hypothesis with Individual Level Data

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. D4.4.3
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Ilaria Maselli and Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Downloads 33 (863,734)

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Do the Effects of Pro-Equality Education Policies Differ across the Performance Distribution?

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 4.5.3
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Bank of England
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He Who Appoints the Piper: Understanding Reasons and Implications of Agency Management 'Politicisation' in Slovakia

The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Vol. V, No. 2, Winter 2012/2013
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy, Emilia Beblava and Darina Ondrusova
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Comenius University and Independent
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Rozhodovanie slovenských miest o postupoch obstarávania verejných služieb (Decision Making of the Slovak Statutory Local Municipalities on Public Procurement Proceedings of Public Services)

Ekonomický časopis, Vol. 57, No. 7, pp. 607-681, 2009
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 17 Mar 2014
Emilia Beblava and Miroslav Beblavy
Comenius University and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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decision-making, municipalities, cities, public procurement, transparency, contrasts

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Europeanization and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Member States: A Case Study of the Agricultural Paying Agency in Slovakia

Public Administration Vol. 87, No. 4, 2009 (923–937)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Europeanization, Slovakia, agriculture, bureaucratic autonomy

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Do Acquaintances and Friends Make Us Learn? Social Capital and Lifelong Learning in Germany

NEUJOBS Working Paper No. 4.3.4
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Anna‐Elisabeth Thum and Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Political Consensus and Sustainability of Major Social and Economic Reforms in Postcommunist Countries

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 17 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy and Robert Žitňanský
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Independent
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Is the Euro Really a ‘Teuro’? Effects of Introducing the Euro on Prices of Everyday Non-Tradables in Slovakia

CEPS Working Document No. 339
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Mar 2014
Miroslav Beblavy
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Using Government Manifestos to Analyse the Political Salience and Shape of Anti-Corruption Policies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Posted: 19 Mar 2016
Emilia Beblava and Miroslav Beblavy
Comenius University and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

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manifesto, corruption

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Age Effects in Okun's Law with Different Indicators of Unemployment

Posted: 27 Nov 2015
Gabriele Marconi, Miroslav Beblavy and Ilaria Maselli
OECD, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

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Learning at Every Age? Life Cycle Dynamics of Adult Education in Europe

Studies in Continuing Education, 2014, Vol. 36, No. 3, 358–379
Posted: 30 Jan 2015
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Bank of England

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adult education, adult learning, learning, lifelong learning, skills supply, continued education

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The Changing Faces of Europeanisation: How Did the European Union Influence Corruption in Slovakia Before and After Accession?

Europe-Asia Studies, 66:4, 536-556, June 2014, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2014.899767
Posted: 07 May 2014
Miroslav Beblavy and Emilia Beblava
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Comenius University

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europeanisation, European Union, corruption