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Housing wealth inequality, intergenerational transfers and young households in the super-homeownership system
This article focuses on the problem of housing wealth inequality as an increasingly important dimension of social inequality in post-socialist super-home-ownership countries and uses the Czech Republic as a case study. The article shows that housing wealth inequality is higher than income inequality and that it tends to grow in time, especially due to the spatially uneven appreciation of house prices. However, intergenerational housing-related within-family resource transfers have a mitigating effect on growin…
Nanoethics for the Plastocene: the value sensitive design of nanofiber materials
This paper focuses on how to respond appropriately to the problemof the (non-)biodegradability of nanofibers and how the integrationof ethics could help. First, the paper describes the experience of abioengineering research team at the Technical University ofLiberec in developing a technology for producing filtrationmaterials during the COVID-19 pandemic and the project thatwas implemented to provide support for ethical decision-makingin the field of research and development of nanotechnologies.The paper then …
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Mortgage debt versus intergenerational transfers: implications for welfare attitudes in the Czech Republic
There has been a noticeable delay in the emergence of a sociology of debt, and of mortgage debt in particular. This paper seeks to fill this gap by testing whether and how the form of home financing influences welfare attitudes regarding the role of the state in housing provision and, consequently, the type of housing (welfare) policy. Specifically, we hypothesise that there are significant differences in attitudes toward the role of the state/municipalities in housing provision between homeowners who financed…
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Topics: History of Sociology
Homeownership, mobility, and unemployment: Evidence from housing privatization.
Homeownership is believed to cause higher unemployment. This is because homeowners face higher mobility costs that limit their job search to local labor markets. Empirical tests of this prediction have yielded mixed results so far, possibly due to the endogeneity of homeownership. This paper proposes that the privatization of public housing in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain was a substantial policy shock that generated largely exogenous assignment of homeownership to individual h…
Intergenerational financial transfers and indirect reciprocity: determinants of the reproduction of homeownership in the post-socialist Czech Republic.
Using a representative survey of the Czech population, we demonstrate that intergenerational within-family financial (wealth) transfers represent the main mechanism in the reproduction of homeownership in Czech post-socialist society. The provision of a transfer or the lack of one largely determines the housing tenure of Czech young adults. Without transfers, the children of homeowners are significantly less likely to also become homeowners. We also show that the probability of an adult child receiving a trans…
Bridging Economics and Sociology: Responses to a Critique of Pragmatic Socioeconomics.
In our Focus article we introduced pragmatic socioeconomics, a methodological and theoretical approach that we believe may create a more solid interdisciplinary bridge between sociology and mainstream economics. This paper reacts on the critical review of our approach by six academics recognised in the field. We devoted the most space to those comments that uncovered the blank spots in our approach or areas that we had poorly addressed. We better defined the position of pragmatic socioeconomic towards 'grand n…
Komparace kupních a odhadních cen bytů v ČR za rok 2019
Význam správného stanovení odhadních cen je akcentován v české i zahraniční literatuře. Provedli jsme porovnání kupních cen (cenových údajů Českého úřadu zeměměřičského a katastrálního) a odhadních cen (České spořitelny, a.s.) bytů. Párování bytů bylo provedeno primárně na základně geografické polohy (s využitím GPS souřadnic), dále podle plochy bytu, typu konstrukce a data zplatnění záznamu, resp. provedení odhadu. Výsledkem je zjištění, že u 60 % bytů b…
Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic.
The housing affordability crisis is one of the most pressing issues in urban centres around the globe, affecting especially young adults. Some theorists have in response begun calling for the provision of more public housing or less housing financialisation (free market). The goal of our article is to demonstrate the housing attitudes of Czech millennials towards state interventions that are designed to address the decline in housing affordability, using a quantitative attitude survey and a series of qualitati…
Topics: Housing
The Impact of Within-family Housing Assistance on the Certainty of Young People’s (Housing) Aspirations in the Czech Republic.
The article presents the results of research on the factors that determine how certain Czech millennials are about their housing and some other life aspirations. We did not primarily look at the content of life aspirations and instead, we examined how certain, confident and concrete young people are about their plans. Using qualitative interviews and an attitude survey we found that intergenerational housing-related within-family resource transfers had a significant impact on how certain young Czechs are about…
Families and the Reproduction of Homeownership in a Post-socialist Context
Post-socialist countries introduced significant reforms in their housing systems and these included property restitution, privatisation, and housing subsidy cuts. Housing privatisation served as the main catalyst for the sharp increase in the outright homeownership rate that became a characteristic feature of post-socialist countries. The retreat of the state was not offset by the development of the institutions or cultures that fully financialised housing markets require. Debt-free homeownership created a gap…
Topics: Housing, Intergenerational Relations
Percepce souvislostí pandemie covid-19 a klimatické změny v české blogosféře.
Článek je věnován reflexi souvislostí klimatické změny a krize způsobené pandemií covid-19 v prostředí českých sociálních médií, konkrétně na vybraných blogovacích platformách. Procesy, které vedou ke klimatické a pandemické krizi, jsou mezi sebou značně provázané a spočívají ve způsobu, jakým lidé ovlivňují životní prostředí v globálním měřítku, ale rovněž společenské okolnosti a důsledky obou krizí, jakož i způsoby jejich řešení, nesou společné rysy…
Educational Pathways and their Role in Occupational and Class Attainment in Czech Society.
This article introduces a new approach to the study of the association between education and socio-economic outcomes in the Czech Republic: educational pathways, which are the primary channels of study involving at least two educational transitions with qualitatively different tracks. Based on Czech Household Panel Study data, we operationalize Czech educational pathways between secondary and tertiary education, and examine the role of eight different educational paths on ESeC-derived social classes, contraste…
Gender Differences in Intergenerational Occupational Persistence and Mobility in Central Europe.
This article investigates intergenerational occupational persistence and mobility across Central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Po-land and Slovakia) based on EU-SILC survey data from 2005, 2011 and 2019. Social Stratification in Eastern Europe survey data from 1993 is also used as a historical comparison. These surveys are uniquely suited for the analysis of occupational mobility because of their large sample sizes and the inclusion of detailed parental occupation data. I report gender differences …
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Interaction Between Government and Parliamentary Opposition in the Czech Republic
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on parliamentary activities have recently become a trending topic. The pandemic presented both challenges and opportunities for governments and parliaments. During times of crisis, government-parliament and government-opposition relations can result in contrasting expectations and outcomes with regard to democratic norms. While consensus on crisis measures between governments and opposition parties can increase public trust and legitimacy, criticism by the opposition is es…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Tradice a konstrukce tradice české reformace v novodobých protestantských církvích.
Článek analyzuje, jak moderní české protestantské církve artikulují a využívají tradici historické české reformace.
The article analyses how modern Czech Protestant churches articulate and utilise tradition of historical Bohemian Reformation.…
Sleep Practices among Parents and Childless Individuals.
While sleep is genetically determined to some extent, it is also largely socially driven. Previous research on sleep is mostly biomedical and inconsistent since the number of analysed sleep variables is limited and it often does not distinguish between genders and parents based on the age of their child/ren. Using representative data from the Czech Household Panel Study (2018) with answers from 2,017 childless individuals and 1,022 parents and employing a method of propensity score matching, the manuscript use…
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive
Za stejnou práci stejná odměna? Genderová rovnost v odměňování v různých kontextech trhu práce.
Přestože mezinárodní srovnání poukazují na genderové rozdíly v odměňování (GPG) jako na významný problém trhu práce ČR, nebyla mu donedávna věnována hlubší výzkumná ani politická pozornost. S využitím dat, propojujících zaměstnané s jejich pracovišti, článek odpovídá na otázku, zda byli muži a ženy v letech 2005 – 2020 odměňováni za stejnou práci stejně a jaká část celkového GPG je způsobena segregací žen a mužů do různých zaměstnání, do různých pr…
Organizační charakteristiky, transparentnost v odměňování a GPG.
Předchozí výzkum poukázal na významnou roli charakteristik pracovišť, do kterých muži a ženy nejčastěji směřují, na vysvětlení rozdílů v jejich výdělcích. Gender pay gap bývá nejčastěji analyzován z hlediska osobních charakteristik žen a mužů a charakteristik jejich práce, organizačním charakteristikám byla ale doposud věnována jen malá pozornost. V této studii se zaměřujeme na tento méně probádaný kontext ovlivňující GPG a klademe si následující otázky: 1) j…
Role of Actors in the Processes of Sustainable Development at Local Level—Experiences From the Czech Republic.
In this text we are interested in the preconditions for, and opportunities provided by sustainable development at local level in non-metropolitan areas, i. e., in rural areas and villages. These areas are generally seen as having an important role in achieving sustainability. The literature review highlights the general principles of endogenous development with an emphasis on local resources including human potential and social capital, and the Czech context. In practice, the empowerment and cooperation of reg…
Rally and Rage: The Gap between Specific and Pandemic-Specific Support for Governments in Europe.
In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the public generally expressed high pandemic-specific support for their governments. Analysis based on ESS Round 10 COVID-19 module data from 20 countries shows, however, that there was a gap between pandemic-specific and specific support for governments in European states. A positive gap in favor of pandemic-specific support for governments was found among 52.7% of the respondents, while a negative trend was observed among 24.0% of the respondents. Younger people, those self…
Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning and experience.
The report contains findings from quantitative and qualitative research on the views of the general population, the population of parents of children aged 6 to 20, and the professional community, teachers and principals, on education and education policies. The main themes are inequalities in education, the content of education, parental participation and response, and the teaching profession.…
Mental health conditions and help-seeking among Ukrainian war refugees in Czechia: A cross-sectional study.
We aimed to screen Ukrainian war refugees (UWR) in Czechia for depression and anxiety, and to assess their recognition of personal mental health problems and related help-seeking.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study on a sample of UWR in Czechia. We used PHQ-8 and GAD-7 to screen for depression and anxiety, SELF-I to assess the recognition of respondents' own mental health problems, and a set of questions regarding mental health-related help-seeking.FindingsOur sample consisted of 1,347 UWR. More than 4…
Motivation for households’ investment in photovoltaics in Czechia: An exploratory factor analysis.
Photovoltaics (PV) are an integral part of the climate neutrality transition, aside from reducing fossil fuel consumption, they provide additional and impactful private and societal benefits. When purchasing PV, the decision-making of small investors is a complex process. We investigate how households decide to invest in PV on rooftops. From a sample of over 2500 respondents, we found that while personal financial benefits are the primary motivation for acquiring PV plants, other variables, such as production …
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