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Příjmy, životní spokojenost a sociální identita českých seniorů v mezinárodním porovnání

The aim of this empirical study concerned the incomes and life satisfaction of Czech seniors and their perception of their social position in comparison with the economically active population. The findings were considered in the form of a cross-national comparison with other V4 member states and selected Western European countries. The study begins with an overview of the various research streams on ageing and the situation of the elderly. The analytical section monitors household incomes across ages, the abi…

Topics: Intergenerational Relations, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Empirical Research on Social Stratification in the Visegrád Countries: An Overview.

This article outlines developments in empirical research on social stratification in the four countries constituting currently the Visegrád Group (V4). Sociology has been developing, if unevenly, as a discipline in these countries since the 19th or early 20th century. Empirical research on social stratification, based on data collected in large surveys, started here by the mid-1960s, first in Poland, then in Hungary, and later in the former Czechoslovakia. In spite of the ideological pressure of the communist…

Topics: History of Sociology, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Social Stratification in Central Europe

his book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four – V4 group), and also by contrast with Austria. It looks at the shared history of these countries as part of the erstwhile Austro-Hungarian Empire. While the V4 states experienced, for decades, the regressive authoritarian Soviet rule, Austria escaped this fate. The question is how some common historical roots, impact of the communist re…

Topics: European Union, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Udržování církve ideály, z nichž se zrodila. Sociologické snahy v Církvi československé (husitské)

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Retirees are also stratified: pre-retirement socio-occupational status and the well-being of older adults in Central Europe

Most stratification research concerns solely the economically active population and omits inactive seniors. Retirees are often treated as a separate and rather homogeneous social category. However, this approach is only partially valid. Retirees can still be differentiated in regard to their objective and subjective well-being, which is linked to their former occupations. Using large EU-SILC datasets for Central European countries, this article focuses on the effect of pre-retirement socio-occupational categor…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Age and Aging, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Equivalence scale and income poverty: Two approaches how to estimate country-specific scale for the Czech Republic

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the equivalence scale used to transform household income to an equivalent for individuals. This study applies two well-established approaches to estimate the equivalence scale: an ‘objective’ one, based on consumption expenditures available in the national Household Budget Survey, and a ‘subjective’ one, based on the Minimum Income Question available in EU–Statistics on Income and Living C…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Poverty in the Czech Republic. A Critical Look at EU Indicators. 2020 Update of Tables and Figures

In 2015 and 2016, we published a study entitled “POVERTY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC. A Critical Look at EU Indicators”, first in Czech (2015) and later in English (2016). The study aimed to provide a critical look at the design of poverty indicators, considering the frequency of their use and their political significance.Though we used various data sources, the main source was the representative statistical survey carried out under the supervision of Eurostat, the European Union Statistics on Income and Living …

Topics: Economy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Setting Social Status in Couples and Partners’ Budgetary Discretion in Central European Countries

The conventional optics of social stratification research—in which the social position of the family unit is seen as being determined by the status of the male head of the household—has been challenged since the early 1970s. Economic research has also questioned the approach that views the household as a single unit. Given the changing circumstances affecting the family and the increasing proportion of couples with female primacy in terms of earnings, education, and socio-economic category, these approache…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Subjective Perceptions of Poverty and Objective Economic Conditions: Czechia and Slovakia a Quarter Century After the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Studies into the relation between subjective perceptions of individuals and objective economic conditions have usually resulted in ambiguous empirical findings. Whilst most studies perceive subjective welfare as being operationalized by indicators of happiness or life satisfaction, we narrow the approach to an economic domain of subjective well-being— perceptions of poverty. We argue that our approach better reflects the economic dimension, as the former may include numerous non-economic domains. We use a ca…

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Ranking objective and perceived inequality

In the Czech public and professional discourse, there is a strong rhetoric of a rooted egalitarianism of the society. This study thus traces various objective and subjective dimensions of socio-economic inequality in an attempt to examine the validity of this rhetoric. It uses various data on levels and trends in earnings, household income and living conditions in the Czech Republic in comparison with other European countries. The study examines data provided by the Czech Statistical Office, databases and publ…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Jací jsme rovnostáři? Výdělky, příjmy a situace domácností v Česku v porovnání s Evropou

V návaznosti na studii autorů „Chudoba v České republice. Kritický pohled na evropské ukazatele“ tato studie přináší souhrnný pohled na výdělky osob, příjmy domácností, přerozdělovací toky, majetkové rozdíly a hospodaření rodin, a to jednak ve vývoji v ČR a jednak ve srovnání s evropskými zeměmi. Zabývá se rovněž vnímáním nerovnosti a středostavovskou identitou. K tomu využívá široké palety statistických a sociologických dat, zčásti pocházejících z evropsk…

Topics: Economy, European Union, Globalization, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Práce, hodnoty, blahobyt. České reálie v evropském kontextu

Kamila Fialová, Dana Hamplová, Martina Mysíková, Zdeněk R. Nešpor, Jiří Večerník (editor). Work, Values, Well-being. Czech Reality in a European Context. Prague, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2016, 416 p.The book describes the fields of work and family in the Czech Republic in comparison with European countries using statistical and sociological surveys. The first part is devoted to the labour market and education. The second part aims at objective and subjective well-being, thei…

Topics: Economy, Work, Education, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Spokojenost se životem a zaměstnáním v České republice

The article deals with life and job satisfaction of the Czech working-age population. First it highlights concepts of happiness and satisfaction within the emerging multidimensional approaches to individual and societal well-being. Then, it resumes the data sources of those measures, with specific attention to the Module on Subjective Well-being of the survey EU-SILC. Using this data, basic characteristics and determinants of life satisfaction are shown first and basic characteristics and determinants of job s…

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Poverty in the Czech Republic: A Critical look at EU Indicators

We use the national and international data from EU-SILC survey to compare different indicators of poverty to compare this data source with administrative data to compare the time of remaining in poverty according to various indicators to compare the situation in the Czech Republic with EU countries.We stress the advantages of a “subjective” poverty indicator based on the percentage of people in households who report they are able make ends meet “with great difficulty” over the EU indicators.The reason …

Topics: Economy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Vliv nízké pracovní intenzity na chudobu v České republice a Slovenské republice

While poverty has long been a phenomenon closely related to the life cycle of family, in recent decades is increasingly dependent on the economic participation of household members. In addition, this change in post-communist countries is associated with the economic and social transformation, which has led to an increasing income inequality. The study of relationships between work intensity and poverty is only at its beginning in transition countries. Using statistical surveys EU-SILC we analyse the specific e…

Topics: Economy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Chudoba v České republice. Kritický pohled na evropské ukazatele

Využíváme národních a mezinárodních dat šetření EU-SILC:•k porovnání různých ukazatelů chudoby•k porovnání dat tohoto šetření s administrativními zdroji•k porovnání doby setrvání v chudobě podle jednotlivých ukazatelů•k porovnání situace v České republice se zeměmi EU.Oproti indikátorům EU prezentujeme výhody „subjektivního“ ukazatele chudoby založeného na výpovědi, že domácnost vychází s příjmy s velkými obtížemi.Důvodem je to, že „subjektivní…

Topics: Economy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Rovnostáři už nejsme

Topics: Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Domácnosti nejlépe vědí, jak na tom jsou

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Ekonomický zázrak se nekonal

Topics: Economy

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Subjektivní blahobyt v České republice a střední Evropě: makro- a mikro-determinanty

The article documents the development of life satisfaction in four transitional Central European countries since 1991, in comparison with Germany and Austria. After presentation of data sources and the overview of the literature regarding the effect of transition on life satisfaction, surveys of European Values Study 1991, 1999 and 2008 are analysed together with macroeconomic data. First, satisfaction levels are correlated with GDP and then, individual characteristics of income, gender, education and family s…

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

GDP and Life Satisfaction in European Countries – Focus on Transition

This article contributes to the debate about the impact of the transition on subjective well-being. After reviewing the relevant literature the authors draw on the surveys of the European Values Study of 1991, 1999 and 2008 to describe the trends in life satisfaction in 13 Western and 11 Eastern countries. The analysis finds that life satisfaction levels in transition countries have come to approach those in the West: the ‘rather unhappy’ 1990s were followed by the ‘rather happy’ 2000s. The strengtheni…

Topics: Economy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

(Un)happy transition? Subjective Well-being in European Countries in 1991-2008 and Beyond

This article contributes to the debate about the impact of the transition to subjective well-being. After reviewing the relevant literature the authors draw on the surveys of the European Values Study between 1991 and 2008 to describe the trends in life satisfaction in 13 ‘Western’ and 11 ‘Eastern’ countries. The analysis finds that life satisfaction levels in transition countries have come to approach those in the West: the ‘rather unhappy’ 1990s were followed by the ‘rather happy’ 2000s. The …

Topics: European Union

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Dějiny české sociologie

The book provides the first comprehensive academic history of Czech sociology from its beginnings in the 19th century to the present. It is based on extensive archive and source research conducted over a number of years as part of a research project entitled the History and Present of Czech Sociology.Authors:Tomáš ČížekJan HorskýDušan JanákJindřich KrejčíZdeněk R. NešporOlga NešporováMiloslav PetrusekJakub RákosníkVěra SokolováJiří VečerníkMichael Voříšek695 CZKWhere to buy this book?…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Job Satisfaction across Europe: Differences between and within Regions

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/similarities within each of the two regions. We use an ordered probit regression model based on European Social Survey 2010 and test the homogeneity of the two WE and EE regions. We apply a bottom-up psychological theory which divides factors in…

Topics: Economy, Work

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Country Report of the Czech Republic

The aim of our study is to describe and analyze the distribution of costs devoted to higher education across the public and private dimension. The following section addresses the size, general structure and funding principles of Czech higher education system, as well as particular components of higher education funding provided from public sources. These are targeted either directly to students, to the families with students or may take a different form. We then present and discuss the output obtained from bot…

Topics: Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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