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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

Na vzdělání záleží

Za posledních dvacet let došlo v České republice k zásadnímu nárůstu počtu studentů na vysokých školách. Jedním z důsledků je, že v naší populaci vzrostly podíly osob s ukončeným vysokoškolským vzděláním na dvojnásobek. Prudký rozvoj vzdělávacího systému vyvolává řadu otázek. Mění se vztah mezi vzděláním, chováním, hodnotami a postoji? Rozevřela se v posledních třech desetiletích propast mezi lidmi s nižším a vyšším vzděláním, nebo se naopak rozdíl…

Topics: Value Orientations, Wages and Incomes, Politics and Political Attitudes, Family, Social Inequalities, Education, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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

Klamná hranice chudoby v Česku

Česká republika se svou desetiprocentní mírou chudoby řadí na nejlepší místo v evropském žebříčku. Jak se ale chudoba měří? Bude si ČR v mezinárodním srovnání stát stejně dobře, podíváme-li se na chudobu jinou optikou?…

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

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

Within-couple Financial Satisfaction in the Czech Republic: A Test of Income Pooling Hypothesis

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 empty nests. On average, women contribute substantially less to the household budget than men and their financial satisfaction is slightly lower. Financial satisfaction of partners with children is not influenced by who brings the income…

Topics: Economy, Gender, 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

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

Forty Percent of Czech Households Cannot Afford a Week’s Holiday! Material Deprivation in the Czech Republic and European Countries

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

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

Personal Earnings Inequality in the Czech Republic

This paper analyzes the inequality of personal earnings in the Czech Republic since the early transition from communism, using relative distribution method. It applies data from two surveys, Microcensus and Living Conditions, covering the period from 1988 to 2008. The trend suggested by many recent empirics, “hollowing of the middle”, was confirmed in the early stages of transition, but later subsided. Earnings polarization was apparent for all sex and education subgroups between the years 1988 and 1996. F…

Topics: Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Working Paper

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

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

Nerovnosti příjmů v párech [Income Inequalities within Couples]

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Australský systém školného a podpory vysokoškolského vzdělávání [Australian System of Higher Education Contribution Scheme]

Topics: Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The Minimum Wage: Labor Market Consequences in the Czech Republic

This paper aims to quantify the impact of the minimum wage on labor market performance in the Czech Republic. Using regional data for 1995–2004, it estimates the effect of the minimum wage adjusted for the regional wage differential on regional unemployment. Consequently, using detailed individual data from 2004/2005, we analyze the annual hikes in the minimum wage, which allow us to estimate employment probabilities for workers with a wage level at, or close to, the new minimum wage. The aim is to reveal wh…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Work

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

EU-SILC a jeho metodologická úskalí: mezinárodní srovnatelnost a příjmové proměnné [EU-SILC and its Methodological Pitfalls: International Comparability and Income Variables]

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) set of surveys are an important source of comparative statistical data. EU-SILC provides data on income, living conditions, poverty and social exclusion, material deprivation: topics of growing interest to scholars in Europe and elsewhere. EU-SILC surveys are fielded in 29 European countries and coordinated by Eurostat. Although the survey is harmonised, the individual level microdata consists of many dissimilarities across participating c…

Topics: Research Methodology, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Labour Market Participation: The Impact of Social Benefits in the Czech Republic and Selected European Countries

This paper aims to quantify the impact of social benefi ts on labour market participation in the Czech Republic and provides a comparison with selected European countries. It applies the logistic regression to estimate the probability of labour market participation depending on social benefits related to net wage of the individuals, controlling for individual and household characteristics. Our results indicate that the work disincentives via social benefi ts do exist in most of the included countries and they …

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Gender Wage Gap in the Czech Republic and Central European Countries

This paper aims to quantify the basic structure of gender wage gaps in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, using the EU-SILC 2008 dataset. The structure of the gender wage gap is analyzed based on the Heckman selection model and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The fi ndings are to a great extent similar for the Czech and Slovak Republics. The observed gender wage gap is relatively high in these two countries, compared to Hungary and Poland. A relatively small but positive part of the observed gend…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The Gender Wage Gap and its Determinants

The project The Adjustment of the Czech Labour Force: Changing Job Structures, Wage Disparities and Work Orientations aimed to use various data sources to describe changes in the field in the last decade. Studies on various topics are collected to provide a multidimensional picture of the changing Czech labour force and its "state of mind", together with identification of some key problems.…

Topics: Economy, Gender

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Income Inequalities within Couples

The study aims to analytically interlink the optics of individuals and households and focus on their demographic and socio-economic behaviour since 1989 in the Czech Republic, and compare these observations with other EU countries, primarily those of Central Eastern Europe (CEE). The fields covered are family formation and life trajectories, earnings disparities and income inequality, the situation of self-employed and family businesses, and religion affiliation of individuals and households.…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Family, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Šetření ČSÚ a statistiky trhu práce [Surveys Conducted by the Czech Statistical Office and Labour Market Statistics]

The text describes labour market statistics and several research projects carried out by the Czech Statistical Office. This chapter concentrates on Czech surveys, organized as a part of larger European research projects, like European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the Household Budget Survey (HBS), as well as the Information System on Average Earnings (ISPV) which provides data for the European project Structure of Earnings Survey (SES).…

Topics: Research Methodology, Wages and Incomes, Work, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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