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Authors: Marcin Baron, Artur Ochojski, Adam Polko, Katarzyna Warzecha, Martin Šimon
The study challenges cost analysis of local public service across countries of Central Europe. The relations of economic features and demographic change characteristics have been investigated. Central Europe Programme co-financed the initiative as its strategic project...
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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: Tudzarovska Emilija
Looking into new Geopolitical EU from and the EU Enlargement from historical perspective
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
The author applies perspektive of economic sociology to his survey on Czech western re-emigrants in the 1990s and their perception of contemporary Czech society, economic-cultural institutions, and business/entrepreneurial behaviour. He concludes that fundamentals differences bet...
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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
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Authors: Mysíková, Martina
This paper uses the national EU-SILC 2013 data to analyse the impact of the distribution of personal income between partners on reported financial well-being of couples in the Czech Republic. It focuses on partners in two life stages: couples raising children and couples with emp...
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Authors: Petrúšek Ivan
Representative survey of adult population is used to analyse perceptions of existing income inequality and preferences for ideal income distribution in the Czech Republic. On average, Czechs view the distribution of disposable income as more unequal than it actually is. This bias...
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Authors: Hamplová Dana, Le Bourdais Céline, Legendre Blandine
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
The paper repositions homelessness in existing cities by highlighting the importance of transformative economic agency. Relying on a combination of long-term ethnographic research in the city of Pilsen, a traditional industrial second-order city in Czechia, and political–economic...
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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
The chapter deals with the moral and political economy of science while using the concept of "modes of ordering" developed by John Law. On the basis of an ethnographic research in a social scientific academic institution it discusses modes of ordering as they are deploy...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka (ed.)
A role of social capital and of its individual dimensions working at overcoming the impacts of economic crises is analysed. Study focuses on a detailed analysis of the inhabitants of the Kraj Vysočina with a supposed high level of social capital, and of Ustecky kraj with a suppos...
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Authors: Lyons, Pat
In this article, a comparison is made between economic and identity explanations of preferences toward EU membership in the Czech Republic. This research demonstrates that economics rather then identity is a more powerful explanation of public opinion toward accession. The result...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Vobecká, Jana
The article examines the relationship between housing affordability and fertility in the Czech Republic after 1989. An analysis of national data suggests that improving housing affordability might be a factor behind the rise of fertility that has been observed since the beginning...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Following the assumption that the middle class is 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 it has gained from economic and social reforms. As th...
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
The chapter focuses on the economic policy making between government and parliament. On the beginning there is analysed the legislative framework of this relation, then the division of power between government and parliament, based on the accountability concept. The result of thi...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
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Authors: Lux, Martin, Petr Sunega
The chapter describes, evaluates and compares the housing allowance in the Czech Republic with housing allowances in selected other transition countries. For the purpose of evaluation the approach of welfare economics is used. 
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
The article provides a strong theoretical basis for a study of Czech emigration to the West and the return of the emigrants in the 1990s, which spreads from P. Berger´s and T. Luckmann´s theory of socialization, and compares it with a point of view of socio-economics,...
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Authors: Mysíková, Martina, Večerník, Jiří
This study focuses on comparison of factors of job satisfaction within Europe. The rare comparative papers on this subject commonly compare Western Europe (WE) and Eastern Europe (EE) by pooling data on the two regions. By contrast, this analysis takes into account dis/similariti...
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Authors: Fialová, Kamila, Schneider, Ondřej
This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions in explaining the development of shadow economies in European countries. The analysis uses several alternative measures of the shadow sector, and examines the effects of labor institutions on the shadow sector in two speci...

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