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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 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: Kostelecký, Tomáš, František Kuda, Petr Sunega, Jan Česelský
The chapter introduces new housing policy tools proposed in connection to economic crisis. The first one is the “temporary bridging loan for homeowners repaying mortgage loans”, who were caught in defaults because of the crisis. The effectiveness of the tool, target g...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Josef Bernard
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: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Vobecká, Jana
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
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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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Authors: Smith, M. L., P. Anýžová, P. Matějů
This study examines the role of cognitive skills on labor market outcomes in 14 developed countries. In contrast to standard Mincer-type regressions, we utilize a structuralmodeling approach that can take into account different types of skills on different economic outcomes. The...

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