Aspekty efektivnosti při volbě profese a školy: přizpůsobují se pražské střední školy po ****************************************************************************************** * Benáček Vladimír ****************************************************************************************** Economic Factors in the Choosing of Professions and Schools: Do Secondary Schools in Pragu the Demand? Abstrakt The choice of professions and the selection of secondary schools are some of the most impo determining the quality of life. At the same time, enterprises cannot function without pro workers. Schools, too, should avoid producing useless professionals. Families, schools and cooperate before making those decisions carrying long-term repercussions. They must emit a the relevant signals that would in the future adjust the supply of specialised young worke entrants to the labour market) to the demand of enterprises for specialists in various pro this paper, we study two crucial questions of economic decision-making: (a) How are people their choice of profession (career) and schools? This is also a decision that deals with t for building human capital; (b) Can enterprises rely on the supply of new qualified worker their future specialised demands? This is also the problem of having school admissions con the structure required by labour inputs with specific skills. By analysing the data for th of Prague, we have found that the adjustment of the supply of new specialised workers (i.e graduates) to the demand of employers (i.e., enterprises) was quite flexible. Our analysis 28 professional types of secondary schools in Prague, reveals that the choice of school an depends primarily on the industrial structure of both employment opportunities and unemplo As a secondary observation, the structure of new admissions to schools is related to the l wages, profits, unemployment rates and R&D expenditures in industries. The ensuing adjustm graduates (or school enrolment) to changing structures of production in Prague reveals tha public information about vacancies, expansion or shrinking of both employment, output, lab unemployment by professions could be an efficient instrument for influencing the labour ma of decision making in both families and schools. Klíčová slova education; human capital; supply and demand for working skills; employment in industries Článek v PDF ke stažení [ URL "LM-997-version1-benacek.pdf"] Vladimír Benáček [ URL "LM-103.html "]