CELSI in the media:

As a legacy of centralised planned economies, post-socialist European countries share a strong tradition of extensive data collection by the state. These administrative data collected by the tax authority, pension funds and other government bodies are often quite high quality. Administrative data on individuals or firms has many advantages over survey data. It is often more accurate, especially compared to surveys asking people to remember things in the past, and it can provide large samples at a reasonable price. Also, by linking two or more databases, we can produce such amount of information on the (anonymised) individual that would be infeasible to collect in a survey.

The management of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) hereby expresses its solidarity with the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. We are deeply concerned about the legislative proposal that directly threatens academic freedoms and prevents the CEU from continuing to operate in Budapest.

On June 26, 2016, at the meeting of the Council of Academia Europea, the European Academy of Sciences, CELSI Research Director Martin Kahanec was elected a full member of Academia Europea in the Economics, Business and Management Sciences Section. He received this award as the fifth Slovak overall and the first in the social sciences and related sciences.

The largest international economics research database RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) has published its most recent ranking, which evaluates the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) as the No .1 institute in economic research in Slovakia. As in previous years, in 2014 CELSI has ranked No.1 in every month, leaving behind eighteen other economic research institutions in Slovakia.

A new study published by the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) suggests that the policies of foreign governments may overshadow domestic policies in determining levels of immigration, and that policymakers should consider carefully the choice of destinations available to potential immigrants.

A new study published by the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) lifts the veil on the hidden impact of the crisis on Poland's labour market. It reveals that while Poland was the only EU country not to enter recession, its effects on the Polish workforce have been severe.

Young singles and young fathers in new member states are especially inclined to leave their homelands, but they also intend to come back sooner than other people, according to a new study published by the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI).

In a broad analysis of immigration in Germany, weekly Wirtschaft Woche quotes Martin Kahanec’s research results on migration in Europe and its relation to the current crisis.