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The changing role of education in the distribution of earnings and household income
This article draws on income surveys from the last two decades to report on trends in earnings disparities and household income inequality in the Czech Republic. Education has been the main axis of change in this area, having acquired a much greater role in the entire process of collecting and distributing income. First, an increasing influence of education is evident in the personal earnings of employees, returns to education having doubled. Second, in couples, education has an important impact on both women…
Topics: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Education
Postoje obyvatel k situaci na trhu s bydlením a bytové politice: existují v České republice „housing classes“?
Using data from representative survey Housing Attitudes 2001 the author analyses the opinons of the Czech population on the situation in the housing market and general attitudes towards housing-related issues and housing policy. Connestions between attitudes and respondents’ positions in the housing market. On the bases of the results of the analyses the usefullness of the theory of the housing classes in the Czech context is discussed. …
Topics: Housing
Životní šance mužů a žen v období transformace. Srovnání České a Slovenské republiky
Growing gender inequality has been forecasted for post-communist Europe. This study compares trends in women’s and men’s self-reported economic life chances (unemployment and economic security) as well as anti-democratic attitudes with eight national surveys (1990 through 1994) in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Neither a divergence nor convergence between the genders is found. However, the republics diverged on many of the same indicators, particularly since separation in 1993. State policy and changing l…
Topics: Economy, Work, Transformation
Staré a nové ekonomické nerovnosti: případ českých zemí
Under the transformation period, economic inequality is assuming new meanings and accents, and its importance growing. We show recent changes and various facets of inequality as displayed in distributions of earning, household incomes and wealth. In earnings, instead of the system covering the costs of labour force reproduction, human capital is better rewarded, thus, the importance of ownership and job grows. In household income, the „demographic“ pattern is slowly replaced by a market model which strengt…
Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Transformation
Model predikce výsledků voleb – alternativní přístup k odhadům volebních výsledků ve volebních obvodech
To provide reliable pre-election forecasts it is necessary to estimate the election results in individual electoral districts. The article presents alternative method of making the preelection estimates which combines the results of national representative surveys and information on the spatial distribution of party support from the previous election. The model estimates are then compared with the results of trational survey-based estimates and practical model usability is documented. …
Topics: Public Administration, Elections and Electoral Research
Public Administration, Regional Policy, and the Committee of the Regions - Interaction of Regional, National and European Influences in the Pre-accession Czech Republic
The aim of the text is to study interaction of the regional, national and European influences in the pre-accession Czech Republic in thesphere of public administration and regional policy. Special attention was paid to the role of the Committee of the Regions, which represented the the EU institution most closely connected with the topic of the research. Research shows the rising importance of the regional institutions in the Czech Republic and its long-term impact. …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration
Changing earnings distribution in the Czech Republic. Survey evidence from 1988-1994
Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Sociological Data, Transformation
Druhé volby do krajských zastupitelstev – kontinuita nebo změna?
This study seeks answers to three fundamental questions: Who were the members of the regional political elites elected in the first regional elections in the year 2000 has the structure of the regional political elites undergone significant change after the elections in 2004, and what are the reasons for the detected changes? For that purpose we analyzed the data from a broad empirical survey among the regional elites, along with the results of the regional elections in autumn 2004. Socio-demographic character…
Topics: Regions, Sociological Data, Public Administration
Die Wahlen in der ČSFR 1992 und der Weg in die Auflösung der Föderation
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Housing Affordability in Czech Regions and Demographic Behaviour – Does Housing Affordability Impact Fertility?
The article examines the relationship between housing affordability and fertility in the Czech Republic after 1989. An analysis of national data suggests that improving housing affordability might be a factor behind the rise of fertility that has been observed since the beginning of the 2000s. The regional variation in fertility is generally lower than the regional variation of indicators of both housing affordability and the economic situation. Although the number of children born increased noticeably, total …
Topics: Housing, Economy, Regions
Vybrané faktory poptávky po bydlení v pozadí vysokých cen bytů v Praze
This article deals first with the relative affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague compared to the situation in the Czech Republic in general. The relative position of Prague in this region is then assessed in a cross-national comparison and determined to be specific. The article’s main objective is to uncover the main demand factors behind the high prices and the low affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague. The authors focus on factors that derive from the specific economic position of P…
Topics: Housing, Economy, City and Village
Jak fungují kraje – příspěvek k hodnocení výkonu krajských vlád
The authors try to answer the question of whether the regional governments (both its elected and the administrative parts) in the Czech Republic function similarly or whether they vary in terms of performance. And if they do vary, how structured and how large are these differences. The analysis is based on indicators and on an aggregate index of regional government performance created by the authors. Based on this index, regions are distinguished with above-average, average and below-average regional governmen…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration
Tripartism in the Czech Republic
Topics: Civil Society, Social Policy, Public Policy
Trh práce: problémy a perspektivy
Changes of the labor market are observed on the base of recent surveys from various points of view: 1. the production and utilization of human capital 2. work incentives and rewards 3. private ownership and job allocation 4. work perspectives and unemployment. The transitory period will be very confused. The labor market will be segmented and the development of individual segments will be uneven. Already now, new temporary borderlines are created. The transformation of the post-communist countries is being car…
Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Capital, Transformation
Escaping from Socialist Paternalism: Social Policy Reform in the Czech Republic
Topics: Social Policy
Entwicklung der Parteilandschaft in der Tschechischen Republik - Möglichkeiten der Konfliktregulierung
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Utváření nové sociální regulace v Československu
Topics: Economy, Social Policy, Transformation
Economic and Political Man. Hardship and Attitudes in the Czech Republic and Central Europe
The interconnection between economic hardship and political attitudes is analyzed in four East-Central European countries. Two explanatory keys to recent left-turns – the “relative deprivation” and “entitlements” theses – are examined. Financial difficulties and paternalistic expectations are high but differ from country to country, this resulting in their various locations on the leftright spectrum. Evaluating the connections leading from perceived economic insecurity to latent participation in de…
Topics: Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes
Kraje v České republice – existují souvislosti mezi ekonomickým rozvojem, sociálním kapitálem a výkonem krajských vlád?
The article represents the results of empirical research aimed at the analysis of potential relationships between thelevel of social capital, the level of economic development and government performance in the Czech regions. The results of analysis do not support hypothesis about the positive correlations among the observed characteristics of regions. However, social capital, economic development and government per in regions are all positively korelated with the level of human capital in regions. …
Topics: Regions, Social Policy, Public Administration
Earnings Disparities in the Czech Republic: The History of Equalisation
Statistical and sociological surveys are used to show the long-term development in earnings disparities. A considerable equalisation in wages occurred in three phases: the first one occurred during the Nazi occupation, then in the 1945-1948 period and finally after the post-Communist victory. The Communist ‘rewarding’ system was characterised by the predominance of demographic factors, the decline of secondary and especially tertiary education and the priority given to productive branches. After 1989, the …
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities
Social Partnership in the Czech Republic
A collection of essays, forums, and book reviews dealing with the Austria's Austro-corporatism. Offers an evaluation of Austro- corporatism in the larger context of European politics, describes the 19th century and WWI roots of social partnership, and looks at issues such as the Kreisky administration's experiments with Austro- Keynesianism, the Austro-corporatism/tripartism model for the new democracies of East-Central Europe, and conservatism and the new right in Austria today.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy
České regiony v sociologické perspektivě. Monotematické číslo
Author emphasizes the importance of the spatial dimension of the social phenomena and indispensability of paying attention to that in empirical reasearch in social sciences. The content of the thematic issue of the journal is then summarized. …
Topics: Research Methodology, Regions, Sociological Data
Editorial
Autor zdůrazňuje význam prostorové dimenze společenských jevů a nezbytnost jejího zkoumání v empirickém společenskovědním výzkumu. Shrnuje obsah tematického monočísla časopisu, které se tématem zabývá. …
Topics: Research Methodology, Regions, Sociological Data
Transformační procesy v socio-ekonomické perspektivě
Transformation cannot be completed unless markets hit not only the formal, but also the substantive aspect of economy. It involves economic institutions (first of all private ownership), economic behaviour (based on „cash nexus“ as well as confidence and other traditional values) and economic actors (especially the middle classes). The economic problems of 1996-1997 indicate the incompleteness of the transformation in the substantive sense. It involves the in sufficient shift of „class hegemony“ from t…
Topics: Economy, Social Inequalities, Transformation
Střední vrstvy v české transformaci. Interakce sociálně-ekonomické politiky a společenského rozvrstvení
Following the assumption that the middle classes are important in the transition from Communism to a democratic market society as its leading actor and guarantor of social integration, this paper presents evidence of the benefits they have gained from the economic and social reform. As these have turned out to be rather modest, it is warned that the middle classes will be more reserved in their political support for rigorous transformation. Special attention is given to the distribution and redistribution of i…
Topics: Economy, Social Inequalities, Social Policy, Transformation
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