CELSI researchers Barbora Holubová, Marta Kahancová, Lucia Kováčová and Adam Šumichrast, along with Lucia Mýtna Kureková and Steffen Torp, worked on a study that examines how the different systems of workers’ representation and industrial relations in Slovakia and Norway facilitate PwD work integration. Taking a social ecosystem perspective, they acknowledge the role of various stakeholders and their interactions in supporting PwD work integration. The paper’s conceptual contribution lies in including social dialogue actors in this ecosystem.

The paper, written by Marta Kahancová and Katarína Staroňová, was published in the European Journal of Industrial Relations. It questions to what extent the export-led growth model, based on foreign direct investment as driver of economic growth, influenced PSWS in Czechia and Slovakia after the 2008–2009 crisis. The paper provides new evidence of the appropriateness of the growth model literature, integrated by consideration of global production chains integration, for understanding PSWS in CEE conditions.

Our CELSI researchers, Monika Martišková, Katarína Lukáčová, and Patrik Gažo, have made a contribution to the latest Thematic Review on Fair Transition Towards Climate Neutrality written by the European Center of Expertise at the European Commission by writing country articles on Czechia and Slovakia.

The article, titled "The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labour market hierarchies" uses a longitudinal model based on individual-level EU LFS and country-level DEMIG POLICY and POLMIG databases to explore variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are linked to labour market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations.

Lucia Kováčová, Martin Guzi and Martin Kahanec co-authored the chapter in the book critically exploring how social partners have been involved in designing and adopting job preservation policies responding to the COVID-19 economic crisis in five CEE countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.

Marta Kahancová co-authored the article titled "Power resources and successful trade union actions that address precarity in adverse contexts: The case of Central and Eastern Europe" along with Aurora Trif, Aristea Koukiadaki and Valentina Paolucci.

CELSI researchers Monika Martišková, Pavol Bors, Tibor T Meszmann and Adam Šumichrast contributed to the book with three case studies that address the situation in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia.

One of the findings is that the measures implemented during the pandemic were often temporary and did not adopt a gender perspective nor address the specific problems of disadvantaged groups, for example, single mothers and migrant women.

Martin Kahanec contributed a chapter on Education Reforms during and after the War to the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) book on Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and Policies. ollowing up on the CEPR blueprint on the reconstruction of Ukraine, the CEPR has put together a group of scientists around the world, with two lead authors on each chapter – one from the EU and one from Ukraine – to provide a salient detailed roadmap covering various sectors and policy areas for the reconstruction of Ukraine from Day 1.

Lucia Kováčová, Armanda Cetrulo and Niels Peuchen worked on the report which adds to previous reports new preliminary results from data mining and text analysis of the newsletter outputs published by the selected stakeholders at the EU level. The goal of these quarterly reports is to address the first research question of the BARCOVID project: “How have the Covid-19 crisis, the state-imposed measures and their consequences affected the industrial relations landscape in EU27 and 5 candidate countries?”