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Michaela Jirková

Ing. Michaela Jirková, Ph.D.

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Job: odborná pracovnice VŠ

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Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Consumption, Standard of Living

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2015 - 2024 Ph.D. at Prague University of Economics and Business, Department of Economic Statistics, Statistics
2012 - 2015 Mgr. at Prague University of Economics and Business, Department of Statistics and Probability, Statistics
2009 - 2012 Bc. at Prague University of Economics and Business, Department of Statistics and Probability, Statistics

Focus

Income poverty and inequality, household consumption behavior, well-being and living conditions.

Teaching Activities

2015 - 2018 Statistics, Department of Economic Statistics, Prague University of Economics and Business

Foreign Study Visits and Internships

09/2012 – 02/2013 - FH Mainz (University of applied sciences), study abroad via the Erasmus program in Germany

Medallion

Michaela Jirková works at the Department of Economic and Religious Studies at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, currently involved in the project "Income Poverty" 2023-2025 funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences, which thematically follows the previous project "Methodology and Reality of Poverty" 2018-2021. She graduated in Statistics at the Department of Economic Statistics at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics on the Prague University of Economics and Business, where she successfully completed her postgraduate studies by defending her dissertation "Estimation of a National Equivalence Scale for the Evaluation of Household Income, Consumption and Living Conditions" in 2024. Since 2015, she has also been employed at the Department of Social Surveys of the Czech Statistical Office for the coordination of the international statistical survey in households EU-SILC.