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Reassessing poverty measurement in Europe using a cash-flow-informed residual-income framework

We develop a cash-flow-informed residual-income (RI) framework that subtracts non-discretionary expenditures (housing costs, loan payments, transportation) from disposable income (DI) to reassess poverty in Europe. Using EU-SILC 2020 microdata and Eurostat methodology, we estimate and compare RI- and DI-based poverty rates. The RI results show higher poverty prevalence and stronger alignment with subjective hardship. Poverty-status transitions and subgroup analyses indicate mortgage holders, renters, and trans…

Topics: European Union, Housing, Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

(Nejen) pravoslavní v České republice na počátku 21. století

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Small Municipalities and Ukrainian Migrant Crisis

The chapter analyses how small municipalities in Czechia responded to the influx of refugees from Ukraine following the Russian invasion in February 2022. Situated within debates on multilevel governance and local crisis management, it asks: (1) what national framework was adopted for managing Ukrainian migration and what role was assigned to municipalities, (2) what problems small municipalities faced during different phases of the crisis, (3) how they addressed these problems, and (4) how higher tiers of pub…

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Navigating the Pandemic: Coordination and Communication in Small Czech Municipalities

The chapter examines how small Czech municipalities navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on coordination, communication and crisis governance in a highly fragmented local government system. Drawing on national crisis legislation, epidemiological data on incidence by municipal size, and 24 semi-structured interviews with mayors of municipalities under 2,000 inhabitants, it analyses both the structural context and local actors' perceptions and practices. The findings show that the early phase of the pandemi…

Topics: City and Village, Public Administration, Public health

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

A comparative study of socio-economic segregation in European capital city-regions: From segregation to desegregation?

Previous research based on 2001 and 2011 census data indicated rising levels of residential segregation between socio-economic groups in many large city-regions in Europe as well as globally. Rising segregation is an important societal concern, as place of residence plays a crucial role in shaping access to urban opportunities. Residential isolation can be especially harmful for the most vulnerable groups. Income inequality was identified as the primary driver of this segregation. The current paper extends com…

Topics: Housing, Trust/Social Cohesion, Economy, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Nurses as heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic? The situation of women working in the health sector and the burden of 'double care', not only in times of pandemics

The subject of the research was the coping of carers with double care (at home and at work). The paper includes a quantitative analysis focusing on the position of carers, identifying the problems they face and possible solutions. The results of the qualitative analysis show the situation of pre-retirees and the position of carers of children under 12 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Topics: Gender, Care, Public health

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Gender & Sociology

Czechia: Policy insights on how culture influences access to finance

Removing barriers to the creation and growth of businesses, including for women entrepreneurs, is a common policy goal of governments around the world. It is estimated there were 34 million “missing entrepreneurs” in OECD countries in 2023 (people who would be entrepreneurs if their social group – women, youth, seniors, immigrants – had a business startup rate equal to men aged 30 to 49). As many as 70% (24.8 million) of those “missing” were women. The likelihood of people getting involved in entr…

Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Supporting gender sensitivity and women's entrepreneurship in times of crisis: innovative approaches and solutions

Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship

Publication Type: Other Publication

'Being a Good Neighbour and Good Steward of the Land': Anthropocentric and Biocentric Attitudes among Representatives of Environmental Organisations and Their Significance for the Success of Landscape Governance Strategies.

The shape of the landscape depends not only on natural and climatic conditions, but also on the social demand as to what the landscape should look like and what functions it should fulfil. Approaches to landscape governance thus reflect the interests and attitudes of the public and social groups. One segment of society that is involved in landscape governance is the branch of civil society devoted to the environment. This article presents the results of a sociological study aimed at identifying and analysing a…

Topics: Climate Change, Civil Society, Social Capital, Environment

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Labour market situation and dynamics of displaced people from Ukraine in Czechia

This research note offers a comprehensive view of labour market integration of displaced people from Ukraine in Czechia, a country that has experienced one of the largest absolute and relative influxes of displaced people due to Russia's war of aggression. Using unique data from the longitudinal Voice of Ukrainians survey on the integration of displaced people from Ukraine in Czechia, this study investigates labour market outcomes and dynamics of displaced individuals and underlying determinants. Special focus…

Topics: European Union, Economy, Migration and Mobility, Work

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The Concept of Socio-economic Indicators for Siting the Deep Geological Repository in the Czech Republic

This expert document was commissioned by SÚRAO, the Czech Radioactive Waste Repository Authority, and examines the possibilities of research into the socioeconomic aspects of siting a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste in the Czech Republic. The document is divided into three parts. The first part defines the subject matter and, based on a review of international literature, provides an overview of approaches to socioeconomic analysis across five relevant areas of so…

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Málo jich, aneb evangelíci v čele českých, moravských a slezských měst v ‚dlouhém‘ 19. století

Topics: City and Village

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

More Than Skepticism: Climate Change Discourses through an Economic Perspective in Czech Newspapers

Central and East European states are believed to endorse climate skepticism in both their public discourse and their population attitudes. In this paper we focus on the climate change discourse from an economic perspective in Czechia and show that the situation is more complex than expected. Specifically, the paper analyses Czech mainstream (Ekonom, MF Dnes) and alternative media (Deník Referendum) and concludes that the discursive strands of (1) adaptation and (2) climate change as an opportunity for busines…

Topics: Economy, Climate Change, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Inflammable object lessons: sustaining “life without a gut” on home parenteral nutrition

Providing a detailed sociological case study of “life without a gut”, this article de-essentialises the gut as fundamental to metabolism and health, and de-fetishises the value of “real food” as a universal good. The study draws on qualitative research into the biosocial life story of Martin, who, since childhood, has lived on home parenteral nutrition (HPN), a technology that bypasses the digestive system by delivering nutrients directly into the bloodstream. It examines efforts to manage Martin’s …

Topics: Sociological Theory, Technology and society, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda

Discriminated group identity and satisfaction with democracy in Europe

Although equality and nondiscrimination constitute the main principles of liberal democracy, democracies produce a diversity of social identities that are sensitive to discrimination and simultaneously challenge their legitimacy. This study examines the relationship between membership in groups discriminated against and satisfaction with the way democracy works (SWD). An analysis of the ESS Round 5–9 data from 18 countries has shown that the percentage of individuals identified with discriminated groups has …

Topics: Identity, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

The collective gut: rational nutrition and the expert visions for the socialist nutritional modernity

This article explores the notion of rational nutrition that constituted the core of nutritional expertise in socialist Czechoslovakia and the modes of nutritional modernity it encompassed. The study draws on an analysis of issues published between 1946 and 1986 of the journal People and Nutrition, which was founded by the Czechoslovak Society for Rational Nutrition to disseminate expert knowledge among both the expert community and the public. Drawing on Hannah Landecker’s notion of industrial metabolism and…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Technology and society, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Social structure and the middle class in the Czech Republic and Central Europe. Concepts, history and analysis

The study focuses on the social structure in the Czech Republic in comparative perspective, with particular attention to the position and dynamics of the middle class. Topics of individual chapters are the following ones: Varieties of middle class definitions; Pre-WWII settings and later fates and research of the Czech middle class; History of stratification research in the V4 countries; Post 1989 transition and value turnabout in social structure research; Data sources for the Czech national and European comp…

Topics: Intergenerational Relations, Family, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

From gunpowder to Semtex

Topics: Technology and society

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The relationship between food security, fruit and vegetable consumption, and health-related factors in the late COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia: a cross-sectional study

Food insecurity is one of the social determinants of health and affects dietary quality and well-being. This study aimed to examine the associations among food insecurity, sociodemographic and economic factors, and health-diet characteristics, with a particular focus on fresh fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption during the late COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia. Data from a cross-sectional survey, ‘Living through the Pandemic', collected in October 2022 as part of a Czech longitudinal survey, were analysed. The …

Topics: Consumption, Public health, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Do green fingers munch on more fruit and veggies? Health effects of home gardening

Inadequate consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables is a persistent problem in many highly urbanized Global North countries. The research suggests that the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables is influenced by households’ food production in gardens. However, the connection between home gardening, consumption, and health is far from straightforward, and in the extant literature, the research evidence is limited. Therefore, this study presents the results of quantitative research exploring the relationship …

Topics: Consumption, Public health, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Lokální a regionální studia

Caring for more-than-human metabolic health: Self-tracking technologies as tools of calculation and communication in obesity and type 1 diabetes care

This article draws on the findings of ongoing ethnographic research to examine the use of self-tracking devices and the embodiment of numerical data in type 1 diabetes (T1D) and obesity (self)care. We engage the notion of industrial and post-industrial metabolism as proposed by Hannah Landecker (2013) to explore the technologically mediated, more-than-human dynamics of metabolic health. While studies tend to depict self-monitoring devices as reinforcing a rigid, mechanistic, and control-obsessed approach to bo…

Topics: Care, Public health, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda

The role of food and housing expenditures in household economic well-being: Evidence from Czechia

This study focuses on the food and housing expenditures of households relative to their disposable incomes, utilizing a unique opportunity of merged national-level data from the Household Budget Survey and EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in Czechia (2020–2023). The study considers both Engel’s law on food expenditures and Schwabe’s law on housing expenditures by verifying their implications for poverty measures. Interpretation of the two laws assumes that households spending the same shares…

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Mobilising political intersectionality in Czechia’s climate movement: Opportunities and pitfalls of coalition building in a post-socialist semi-periphery

Political intersectionality is now increasingly mobilised by social movements and their coalitions advocating for climate justice in different contexts around the world. Employing feminist action research, we explore (1) individual, (2) organisational and (3) societal levels of political intersectionality in the Czech climate movement. Our focus on spatiotemporal factors reveals the opportunities and pitfalls of intersectional coalition building in a post-socialist semi-periphery. In a societal context distort…

Topics: Gender, Climate Change, Civil Society, Environment

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Lokální a regionální studia

Gender Inequalities in Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Times of Crisis

The policy brief “Gender Inequalities in Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Times of Crisis” provides an overview of the key barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic and presents recommendations for creating a more gender-equal business environment. It builds on a participatory workshop organized by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences within the Gendered Innovation Living Labs (GILL)project, which brought together …

Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

The mediating role of financial well-being in the relationship between housing affordability and mental health

This study examines the mediating role of financial well-being in the relationship between housing affordability and mental health across the European Union. Utilizing data from the 2018 EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, the analysis incorporates both objective and subjective measures of housing affordability and financial well-being. The findings reveal that financial well-being acts as a mechanism that links housing pressure to mental health, proxied by the MHI-5 Mental Health Inventory. Notably…

Topics: European Union, Housing, Economy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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