Institute of Economic Research
Topic
Development of a dynamic microsimulation model of the Slovak Labour Supply
PhD. program
Year of admission
2026
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Miroslav Štefánik, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky UK
Annotation
The Slovak labour market is increasingly feeling the effects of labour shortages. Identifying segments of the labour market with relatively higher levels of labour shortages and targeted investment in worker, attraction, activation and retraining are therefore becoming increasingly important. To this end, we plan to develop a dynamic microsimulation model capable of capturing the dynamics of the labour supply structure and, in turn, identifying the market segments with the most significant mismatch between supply and demand. This type of microsimulation model should be capable of modelling demographic processes as well as processes of economic activity, employment, and related labour income. The architecture of this type of model requires mastery of professional literature from several scientific fields, ranging from the creation of microsimulation models to concepts of demography and social science research in the field of the labour market. Students are expected to apply regression and probability models of classify big data, as well as to have a user-level understanding of language models.