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I'm an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus. I completed my PhD degree at the same institution in February 2006. During my academic career I spent some time visiting other universities, such as Princeton University (2010) and University of Illinois at Chicago (2004-2005). Those stays abroad were enriching me both from the academic and private life point of view.

I’m conducting research in several areas of labor economics. My main research interest is to analyze determinants of immigration, recently I focus on the role of language, climate change, and employment rights in driving international migration flows. Lately, I have conducted research on workforce diversity and firm's outcomes such as firm productivity and innovation activities using rich register based datasets from Denmark. I'm also interested in studying immigrants’ career paths and the workplaces they work at, immigrants’ selectivity and assimilation. At the same time I'm interested in the Central and Eastern European economies and the transition process - being myself a Czech citizen. In particular, I carry out research on wage structures and labour market dynamics in the Czech Republic using comprehensive linked employer-employee micro-datasets.

See my Research section for details on my research publications and papers.

In my private life I'm very much into nature, travelling, sport, music and playing with my little boy, check out my Personal section for more details and some pictures :-)