Wadim Strielkowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 264137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wadim Strielkowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wadim |
| FAMILY NAME | Strielkowski |
| SIGNATURE | STRIELKOWSKI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech University of Life Sciences Prague |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6113-3841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Investigating stress, anxiety, and coping strategies among higher education students in extreme contexts
These results allow us to provide practical recommendations for effectively coping with stress and anxiety among students in Romania and beyond and to help stakeholders and policymakers design strategies for strengthening students' resilience, mental health, and well-being in case of future pandemics or other extreme contexts
AI ‐driven adaptive learning for sustainable educational transformation
This paper scrutinizes how adaptive learning technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming today's education by making it personalized, accessible, and efficient as well as leading people to accepting, addressing, and mitigating sustainable development. Recently, education witnessed a remarkable technological surge driven by various advances in technology, which can be demonstrated by the increase of the number of scientific publ…
Energy‐saving technologies and energy efficiency in the post‐ Covid era
The COVID‐19 pandemic made people reevaluate their energy consumption and energy efficiency. It held up a mirror to humanity's opportunistic and ruthless deployment of energy sources. As the city streets went empty and the international air traffic stopped altogether, people witnessed the significant drop in CO 2 emissions, realized their dependence upon energy sources, and became aware of global climate change. In addition, with lockdowns and ho…
Post-soviet economics in the context of international trade
Regional cooperation represents a viable alternative to the ongoing process of globalization, in which countries can optimally respond to the changes in the external environment through regional integration, while a larger market size tends to provide better sales opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to identify common determinants of the impact of economic and trade cooperation on the convergence of the economies of the member states of t…
Perception of Scientific and Social Values in the Sustainable Development of National Innovation Systems
National innovation systems (NIS) are generally perceived as a set of interconnected organizations (or structures) that domestically produce and commercially implement scientific knowledge and technology. The development of any national innovation system is the key element for shaping up the scientific values in every country. Our paper identifies the trends in global innovation and technological scope associated with the formation of global econ…
Factors influencing the choice of private or public schools
The existence and development of public schools is influenced by a plethora of factors. Through the creation of education policies, any state education system is striving to accomplish specific goals. Both informal and formal private schooling is taking the lead in all cultures and societies. Unmistakably, the distinction between private and public schools is evident. However, given the different circumstances, choosing the best alternative for a…
Income Tax Progressivity and Nonreligion in Central and Eastern Europe
Our paper focuses on the tax progressivity and nonreligion in central and eastern Europe using an example of the Czech Republic, one of the most atheistic countries in the world. Religion might imply formal affiliation with a certain confession or active church attendance, but it might also become a determinant of taxation preferences. We employ ordinal regression analyses to study direct and mediation effects of both church affiliation and churc…
Social Health and Psychological Safety of Students Involved in Online Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Our paper focuses on the issues of social health and psychological safety of university students involved in digital sustainable education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, modern education is becoming inclusive due to the advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT), and it is important not only to stress the relevance of sustainable development and the use of digital technologies, but also their impact on students at …
The social acceptance of nuclear fusion for decision making towards carbon free circular economy
Public support for sustainable development and environmental policy
While the scientific community presents a relatively uniform conclusion on the ongoing global warming and the policies that are essential for sustainable development and the mitigation of the negative effects of climate change, the public opinion on the topic is far from uniform. This article studies the factors related to public awareness of climate change and environmental policy, public ideas on the supposed effects of climate change, the beli…
Does Playing Video Games Increase Emotional Creativity
Emotional creativity (EC), which constitutes a main aspect of the general creativity concept, is often shown to be substantially related to positive emotional experiences, effective motivation, and innovation at the workplace as well as at school. However, little is known about the relationship between emotional creativity and the time people tend to spend playing video games. Nowadays, video games and virtual reality have become an important asp…
Evolution of External Health Costs of Electricity Generation in the Baltic States
Implementation of strict policies for mitigating climate change has a direct impact on public health as far as the external health costs of electricity generation can be reduced, thanks to the reduction of emission of typical pollutants by switching to cleaner low carbon fuels and achieving energy efficiency improvements. Renewables have lower external health costs due to the lower life cycle emission of typical air pollutants linked to electrici…
Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the determinants of economic efficiency and to assess the prerequisites for the energy security of smart cities. The main methods of the paper include an economic analysis of the infrastructure improvements that result in reducing the energy demand of the smart cities represented by the intelligent light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system. Smart LED streetlights are getting increasingly …
Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education and the Import of Institutions
The implementation of neoliberal reforms in higher education coincides with the radical institutional changes in the transition from a planned to a market economy. The modernization of higher education is also connected with the concept of the "entrepreneurial" university that represents a third-generation university with an emphasis on optimization and marketing. However, economic policy aimed at reforming and developing the public sector is bas…
Research functionality and academic publishing
This paper aims at introducing and testing the novel measures of research functionality and efficiency from the point of view of internationalization of academic publishing and introduction of global research career paths in the digital epoch. We analyse the recent trends in research productivity and academic publishing and scrutinize the novelties such as PlumX and Publons. Moreover, we tackle the issue of gaming with altmetrics using new digita…
Economic Analysis of Renewable Energy Sources in European Union
Electrical power systems in the European Union are undergoing fundamental changes driven by environmental and energy security concerns that make energy generation and energy demand face a challenge of decarburization that is becoming a priority both in the EU and worldwide. Significant decarburization goes hand in hand with recent technological developments that put a strong emphasis on the electrification of the transport and heat demand sectors…
Analysis of competitiveness
This study provides an overview and conducts a thorough analysis of the current state and development trends of the energy sector in a competitive electricity market in Russia. It scrutinises and outlines the most probable scenarios and outcomes of the innovative development on the electricity market and describes the possible changes. Moreover, a comprehensive study of technology foresight methods that allows one to draw parametric models of the…
Social and Economic Implications for the Smart Grids of the Future
This paper discusses the implications of autonomous self* (self-configuring, self-healing, selfoptimizing and self-protecting) systems for the development of the electrical smart grids of the future. It assesses several scenarios of the future development without prioritizing any of them. The paper employs the data from the Smart Metering Electricity Customer Behaviour Trials conducted by the Commission for Energy Regulation and kindly provided b…
Economic prospects and development of the power industry in Russia
Our paper analyzes economic prospects and development of power engineering enterprises in Russian Federation. We show that despite the growth in use of renewable energy sources, the increase of organic fuel consumption is observed, and this is one of the key factors of traditional manufacturing effi ciency improvement related to energy conversion in the power-plant industry in Russia. Cost forecast for mastering the manufacture of advanced genera…
Integration of migrants in the EU
Our paper deals with the specifi c aspects of immigration and the eff ects that the integration of immigrant groups may have in the national income. Th rough an appropriate analysis, this research attempts to provide a description of the immigration phenomenon in the EU, the consequences of it in the labor markets and the relation with the distinct integration policies implemented by the EU countries. Since the European Union enables free mobilit…
Religion and International Migration
This paper studies the relationships between religion and migration in modern-day Ukraine. We focus on Ukraine's numerous churches and their attitude toward the phenomenon of emigration, their relevant activities with regard to the outward migration from the country, and the migration experiences and intentions of the believers. We find that the Greek Catholic Church has put special attention on the emigration phenomenon in its social doctrine, w…
Labour Market Inclusion of International Protection Applicants and Beneficiaries
This paper discusses the labour market inclusion of international protection applicants and beneficiaries with a special focus on the Czech Republic. The issue of letting the asylum seekers and refuges to enter the labour markets of the Members States freely and without obstacles constitutes a hot-debated topic in the EU and differs from country to country. One can say that this topic was taken out of context and exploited during the recent Brexi…
Planning horizon in labour supply of Belarusian small entrepreneurs
Our article focuses on testing the intertemporal substitution hypothesis (ISH) that predicts a positive relationship between hours worked and transitory changes in wages for the owners of Belarusian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Our results demonstrate that Belarusian entrepreneurs are willing to work a fixed number of hours regardless of their businesses’ performance. Additionally, it appears that females have larger labour supply elastic…
Economic efficiency and transformation of the Russian energy sector
This paper considers the issues of economic transformation, reconstruction, and technical re-equipment of the energy sector in the Russian Federation. The sector is struggling with economic inefficiency and post-transformation legacy. Energy sector transformation represents a key element in ensuring the energy security and it one of the most troubling questions of energy economics nowadays. It is expected that by 2020 more than half of the energy…
Business influence on media news processing
How do journalists in two formerly authoritarian countries, the Czech Republic and South Africa, perceive the potential of media owners and other business people to infl uence their work? Multinomial ordinal regression analysis was applied to data collected in the Czech Republic and South Africa for the present 50 country-wide Worlds of Journalism (WoJ) Project. A total of 291 journalists in the Czech Republic and 371 journalists in South Africa …
Is the level of taxation a product of culture? A cultural economics approach
The role played by the state is one of the most important problems facing economic science. Apart from its role as welfare provider, the state is inevitably confronted by the shared cultural values of its citizens. This paper evaluates the role of culture in explaining the differences in the tax revenues as percentage of GDP on a cross-sectional dataset from 41 countries. The results suggest that the association between shared cultural values, on…
Determinants of Profitability of Polish Rural Micro-Enterprises at the Time of EU Accession
Rural micro-enterprises are an important factor in sustainable rural development in post-transitional Eastern Europe. This paper deals with determining the key factors influencing profitability in rural micro-enterprises in Poland. The research design was based on a questionnaire survey of 300 rural micro-enterprises in the food-processing sector in rich and poor Polish provinces. The analysis carried out in this study is centered around the Poli…
Public support for sustainable development and environmental policy
While the scientific community presents a relatively uniform conclusion on the ongoing global warming and the policies that are essential for sustainable development and the mitigation of the negative effects of climate change, the public opinion on the topic is far from uniform. This article studies the factors related to public awareness of climate change and environmental policy, public ideas on the supposed effects of climate change, the beli…
Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education and the Import of Institutions
The implementation of neoliberal reforms in higher education coincides with the radical institutional changes in the transition from a planned to a market economy. The modernization of higher education is also connected with the concept of the "entrepreneurial" university that represents a third-generation university with an emphasis on optimization and marketing. However, economic policy aimed at reforming and developing the public sector is bas…
Business influence on media news processing
How do journalists in two formerly authoritarian countries, the Czech Republic and South Africa, perceive the potential of media owners and other business people to infl uence their work? Multinomial ordinal regression analysis was applied to data collected in the Czech Republic and South Africa for the present 50 country-wide Worlds of Journalism (WoJ) Project. A total of 291 journalists in the Czech Republic and 371 journalists in South Africa …
AI ‐driven adaptive learning for sustainable educational transformation
This paper scrutinizes how adaptive learning technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming today's education by making it personalized, accessible, and efficient as well as leading people to accepting, addressing, and mitigating sustainable development. Recently, education witnessed a remarkable technological surge driven by various advances in technology, which can be demonstrated by the increase of the number of scientific publ…
Integration of migrants in the EU
Our paper deals with the specifi c aspects of immigration and the eff ects that the integration of immigrant groups may have in the national income. Th rough an appropriate analysis, this research attempts to provide a description of the immigration phenomenon in the EU, the consequences of it in the labor markets and the relation with the distinct integration policies implemented by the EU countries. Since the European Union enables free mobilit…
Religion, Culture, and Tax Evasion
Our paper analyzes the impact of culture and religion on tax evasions in the Czech Republic, which represents one of the most atheistic countries in Europe, and a very interesting example of attitudes to the church and religion, as well as the influence of religion on the social and economic aspects of everyday life. Our results suggest that, in the Czech Republic, religion plays the role of tax compliance, but only through a positive effect of v…
Religion and International Migration
This paper studies the relationships between religion and migration in modern-day Ukraine. We focus on Ukraine's numerous churches and their attitude toward the phenomenon of emigration, their relevant activities with regard to the outward migration from the country, and the migration experiences and intentions of the believers. We find that the Greek Catholic Church has put special attention on the emigration phenomenon in its social doctrine, w…
Labour Market Inclusion of International Protection Applicants and Beneficiaries
This paper discusses the labour market inclusion of international protection applicants and beneficiaries with a special focus on the Czech Republic. The issue of letting the asylum seekers and refuges to enter the labour markets of the Members States freely and without obstacles constitutes a hot-debated topic in the EU and differs from country to country. One can say that this topic was taken out of context and exploited during the recent Brexi…
EU accession, transition and further integration for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe
This contribution summarizes the outcomes of the research produced within the framework of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme Jean Monnet's BRIDGE project and focuses on the research dissemination in the field of economic governance that must be considered by the Central and Eastern European countries in the EU context. The topics mentioned above became the core of this special issue of Economics and Sociology journal. Prior to the EU enlargement…
U krainian Labour M igration and Remittances in the C zech R epublic
Our paper analyses U krainian migration and remittances in the C zech R epublic using the data from a U krainian M igration P roject ( UMP ) survey. Due to its advantageous geographical location in the heart of E urope, the C zech R epublic attracts the considerable part of foreign labour among all C entral and E astern E uropean countries ( CEE ), with U krainian workers being the largest group. Our results reveal that the main determinants of U…
Ukrainian Labour Migration in the Czech Republic
This paper aims at finding out, whether the previous experience in Ukrainian construction sector increases the probability of doing the same job in the Czech construction sector. We assume that the integration of Czech and Ukrainian construction sectors led to the creation of structural channels directing Ukrainian labour migrants to the Czech Republic along the migration lines and facilitating the process of labour migration between these two co…
Is the level of taxation a product of culture? A cultural economics approach
The role played by the state is one of the most important problems facing economic science. Apart from its role as welfare provider, the state is inevitably confronted by the shared cultural values of its citizens. This paper evaluates the role of culture in explaining the differences in the tax revenues as percentage of GDP on a cross-sectional dataset from 41 countries. The results suggest that the association between shared cultural values, on…
Determinants of Profitability of Polish Rural Micro-Enterprises at the Time of EU Accession
Rural micro-enterprises are an important factor in sustainable rural development in post-transitional Eastern Europe. This paper deals with determining the key factors influencing profitability in rural micro-enterprises in Poland. The research design was based on a questionnaire survey of 300 rural micro-enterprises in the food-processing sector in rich and poor Polish provinces. The analysis carried out in this study is centered around the Poli…
Ukrainian Migrants in the European Union
This paper aims to provide a comparative analysis of links between personal characteristics and remittance behavior as well as to investigate the determinants of integration and to validate the remittance decay hypothesis in the target country for Ukrainian migrants in the Czech Republic and Italy. Our research attempts to answer a number of novel research questions by determining whether some personal attributes could be attached to Ukrainian la…
Turkish migration in Europe
This paper analyses the impact of Turkey's potential EU membership on emigration from Turkey to the European Union. We apply panel data estimators using the data on emigration from EU15 countries into Germany and the Netherlands in order to construct possible future scenarios of Turkish migration to the EU. Three scenarios of migration, pessimistic, realistic and optimistic (depending on the fears related to the expected impact of Turkish migrati…
U krainian Labour M igration and Remittances in the C zech R epublic
Our paper analyses U krainian migration and remittances in the C zech R epublic using the data from a U krainian M igration P roject ( UMP ) survey. Due to its advantageous geographical location in the heart of E urope, the C zech R epublic attracts the considerable part of foreign labour among all C entral and E astern E uropean countries ( CEE ), with U krainian workers being the largest group. Our results reveal that the main determinants of U…
Migration Incentives and Flows between Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine and the European Union
The main objective of this paper is to elaborate econometric model forecasting the stocks of migrants from the Eastern European states (EES) in the Visegrad group (V4) countries and the European Union Member States (EU MS) in case of visa abolition. We use the data span of 2008-2012 and the econometric techniques known as Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR), Panel data Least Squares (PLS) and General method of moments (GMM) to build three types …
Ukrainian Labour Migration in the Czech Republic
This paper aims at finding out, whether the previous experience in Ukrainian construction sector increases the probability of doing the same job in the Czech construction sector. We assume that the integration of Czech and Ukrainian construction sectors led to the creation of structural channels directing Ukrainian labour migrants to the Czech Republic along the migration lines and facilitating the process of labour migration between these two co…
Planning horizon in labour supply of Belarusian small entrepreneurs
Our article focuses on testing the intertemporal substitution hypothesis (ISH) that predicts a positive relationship between hours worked and transitory changes in wages for the owners of Belarusian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Our results demonstrate that Belarusian entrepreneurs are willing to work a fixed number of hours regardless of their businesses’ performance. Additionally, it appears that females have larger labour supply elastic…
Economic efficiency and transformation of the Russian energy sector
This paper considers the issues of economic transformation, reconstruction, and technical re-equipment of the energy sector in the Russian Federation. The sector is struggling with economic inefficiency and post-transformation legacy. Energy sector transformation represents a key element in ensuring the energy security and it one of the most troubling questions of energy economics nowadays. It is expected that by 2020 more than half of the energy…
Business influence on media news processing
How do journalists in two formerly authoritarian countries, the Czech Republic and South Africa, perceive the potential of media owners and other business people to infl uence their work? Multinomial ordinal regression analysis was applied to data collected in the Czech Republic and South Africa for the present 50 country-wide Worlds of Journalism (WoJ) Project. A total of 291 journalists in the Czech Republic and 371 journalists in South Africa …
EU accession, transition and further integration for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe
This contribution summarizes the outcomes of the research produced within the framework of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme Jean Monnet's BRIDGE project and focuses on the research dissemination in the field of economic governance that must be considered by the Central and Eastern European countries in the EU context. The topics mentioned above became the core of this special issue of Economics and Sociology journal. Prior to the EU enlargement…
Attitudes towards EU integration and Euro adoption in the Czech Republic
Our paper focuses on eliciting people's attitudes towards EU integration and the adoption of Euro currency in the Czech Republic. Although EU Accession was widely supported and accepted by the Czech citizens prior to 2004, more than 10 years into the EU membership the attitudes to integration have changed considerably. The recent world's economic and financial crisis, the crisis of the Eurozone and the issues with the Greek membership in the Euro…
Study of Influence of Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Workers on Job Satisfaction (The Case of the Czech Republic)
This paper has presented an analysis of correlations between job satisfaction, socio-demographic characteristics of workers and workplace relationships using the example of the Czech Republic. Our results have shown, that personal income, workplace relationships (including occupational safety) were positively and significantly related to job satisfaction, while age and gender were related only to an indicator mapping the job type. In addition, we…
Religion, Culture, and Tax Evasion
Our paper analyzes the impact of culture and religion on tax evasions in the Czech Republic, which represents one of the most atheistic countries in Europe, and a very interesting example of attitudes to the church and religion, as well as the influence of religion on the social and economic aspects of everyday life. Our results suggest that, in the Czech Republic, religion plays the role of tax compliance, but only through a positive effect of v…
Economic prospects and development of the power industry in Russia
Our paper analyzes economic prospects and development of power engineering enterprises in Russian Federation. We show that despite the growth in use of renewable energy sources, the increase of organic fuel consumption is observed, and this is one of the key factors of traditional manufacturing effi ciency improvement related to energy conversion in the power-plant industry in Russia. Cost forecast for mastering the manufacture of advanced genera…
Integration of migrants in the EU
Our paper deals with the specifi c aspects of immigration and the eff ects that the integration of immigrant groups may have in the national income. Th rough an appropriate analysis, this research attempts to provide a description of the immigration phenomenon in the EU, the consequences of it in the labor markets and the relation with the distinct integration policies implemented by the EU countries. Since the European Union enables free mobilit…
Religion and International Migration
This paper studies the relationships between religion and migration in modern-day Ukraine. We focus on Ukraine's numerous churches and their attitude toward the phenomenon of emigration, their relevant activities with regard to the outward migration from the country, and the migration experiences and intentions of the believers. We find that the Greek Catholic Church has put special attention on the emigration phenomenon in its social doctrine, w…
Labour Market Inclusion of International Protection Applicants and Beneficiaries
This paper discusses the labour market inclusion of international protection applicants and beneficiaries with a special focus on the Czech Republic. The issue of letting the asylum seekers and refuges to enter the labour markets of the Members States freely and without obstacles constitutes a hot-debated topic in the EU and differs from country to country. One can say that this topic was taken out of context and exploited during the recent Brexi…
Economic Analysis of Renewable Energy Sources in European Union
Electrical power systems in the European Union are undergoing fundamental changes driven by environmental and energy security concerns that make energy generation and energy demand face a challenge of decarburization that is becoming a priority both in the EU and worldwide. Significant decarburization goes hand in hand with recent technological developments that put a strong emphasis on the electrification of the transport and heat demand sectors…
Analysis of competitiveness
This study provides an overview and conducts a thorough analysis of the current state and development trends of the energy sector in a competitive electricity market in Russia. It scrutinises and outlines the most probable scenarios and outcomes of the innovative development on the electricity market and describes the possible changes. Moreover, a comprehensive study of technology foresight methods that allows one to draw parametric models of the…
Social and Economic Implications for the Smart Grids of the Future
This paper discusses the implications of autonomous self* (self-configuring, self-healing, selfoptimizing and self-protecting) systems for the development of the electrical smart grids of the future. It assesses several scenarios of the future development without prioritizing any of them. The paper employs the data from the Smart Metering Electricity Customer Behaviour Trials conducted by the Commission for Energy Regulation and kindly provided b…
Research functionality and academic publishing
This paper aims at introducing and testing the novel measures of research functionality and efficiency from the point of view of internationalization of academic publishing and introduction of global research career paths in the digital epoch. We analyse the recent trends in research productivity and academic publishing and scrutinize the novelties such as PlumX and Publons. Moreover, we tackle the issue of gaming with altmetrics using new digita…
Does Playing Video Games Increase Emotional Creativity
Emotional creativity (EC), which constitutes a main aspect of the general creativity concept, is often shown to be substantially related to positive emotional experiences, effective motivation, and innovation at the workplace as well as at school. However, little is known about the relationship between emotional creativity and the time people tend to spend playing video games. Nowadays, video games and virtual reality have become an important asp…
Evolution of External Health Costs of Electricity Generation in the Baltic States
Implementation of strict policies for mitigating climate change has a direct impact on public health as far as the external health costs of electricity generation can be reduced, thanks to the reduction of emission of typical pollutants by switching to cleaner low carbon fuels and achieving energy efficiency improvements. Renewables have lower external health costs due to the lower life cycle emission of typical air pollutants linked to electrici…
Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the determinants of economic efficiency and to assess the prerequisites for the energy security of smart cities. The main methods of the paper include an economic analysis of the infrastructure improvements that result in reducing the energy demand of the smart cities represented by the intelligent light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system. Smart LED streetlights are getting increasingly …
Economics (24 works) · Business (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · European union (10 works) · Czech (9 works) · Economic system (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · International trade (7 works)