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Authors: Olivier Godechot, Nils Neumann, Paula Apascaritei, István Boza, Martin Hallsten, Lasse Henriksen, Are Hermansen, Feng Hou, Jiwook Jung, Naomi Kodama, Alena Křížková, Zoltán Lippényi, Elvira Marta, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Halil Sabanci, Matthew Soener, Max Thaning
The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in finance, and the effect of increased capital requirements and the bonus cap on...
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
In the paper the author describes sociological understanding of the disparities between ideologies of Czech transformation and its social, economic and political reality.
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Authors: Lux, Martin, Petr Sunega, Tomáš Katrňák
Housing conditions form an important part of social stratification in many advanced industrial economies. The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which social stratification is linked to housing inequalities in the post-socialist Czech Republic; and how this r...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Lumír Gatnar, Milan Tuček
The study based on the results of the 1999 representative survey on "Decade of the Czech Tranformation" states that in connection with the accomplished institutional and social changes in the political and economic system a hybrid social structure emerged in which three...
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Authors: Vohlídalová, Marta, Cidlinská, Kateřina
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
The article explores how homeless people make places in the public space, while revealing some of the overlooked effects these places may have on the wider city. The article relies on extensive ethnographic research and media coverage analysis of a place called Eskalátory...
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Authors: Cidlinská, Kateřina, Červinková, Alice, Ortenová, Alena
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Petr Vašát (PV): Maria, first of all, thank you for meeting with me. For our interview, I have prepared questions spanning from informal urbanism to building techniques to politics. Some of these questions are more related to research, while some are more about urban development....
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
This book examines the income distributional experience of fifteen developed economies over the past two decades. It considers the effects on the inequality of household income of the development of individual earnings, unemployment, inflation, public sector transfers and taxes,...
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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
The article concerns a review of American critical theorist Nancy Fraser and German critical theorist Axel Honneth. The authors gradually reply to each other in two steps and confront their approaches of justice. On the one hand Fraser proposes two-dimens...
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Authors: Fialová, Kamila, Mysíková, Martina
Purpose – The authors aim to demonstrate the impact of allowing for unequal intra-household distribution of resources on income poverty and income inequality.Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies a collective consumption model to study the intrahousehold distribution of...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Following the assumption that the middle classes are important in the transition from Communism to a democratic market society as its leading actor and guarantor of social integration, this paper presents evidence of the benefits they have gained from the economic and social refo...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Kniha je interdisciplinární a multimetodologickou studií bezdomovectví v Česku. Autor v ní čtenáři ukazuje, jak se bezdomovectví zhmotňuje na průsečíku politickoekonomických faktorů, jako jsou demokratizace společnosti nebo integrace do globální ekonomiky, a specifických doprovod...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Transformation cannot be completed unless markets hit not only the formal, but also the substantive aspect of economy. It involves economic institutions (first of all private ownership), economic behaviour (based on „cash nexus“ as well as confidence and other traditi...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Petra Anýžová, Natálie Simonová
Tato kapitola se zabývá nejen nerovnostmi v šancích na dosažení vyššího vzdělání, vývojem vzdělanostní mobility, ale též vlivem sociálního původu a dosaženého vzdělání na úroveň kompetencí jedince. Výsledky provedených analýz potvrzují obecný trend poklesu podílu vzestu...
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Authors: Mysíková, Martina
This book recapitulates the methodology of income poverty measurement applied in the EU and provides statistics and characteristics of the poor in Visegrád countries, supplemented by appendices with results for EU countries. After introducing the data, which is drawn from EU-SILC...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Under the transformation period, economic inequality is assuming new meanings and accents, and its importance growing. We show recent changes and various facets of inequality as displayed in distributions of earning, household incomes and wealth. In earnings, instead of the syste...
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Authors: Pat Lyons and Rita Kindlerová (eds.)
Do Czechs want equality?Are Czechs a nation of grumblers?Are Czechs prejudiced?How do Czechs spend their time?Czexit?What do Czechs think about migrants and do Czechs fear foreigners?Price of the book 350 CZK or US$14 (552 pages)The book is available from a number of on...

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