The legacy of equality and the weakness of law: Within-Job Gender Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic

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Autoři: Křížková, Alena, Penner, Andrew, M., Petersen, Trond
Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic in the years 1998, 2002, and 2004, we examine whether the introduction of legislative measures for gender equality connected with the accession to the European Unio...
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The effect of parents’ education and income on children’s school performance: the mediating role of the family environment and children’s characteristics

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Autoři: Raudenská, P., Hamplová, D.
This study investigated the effects of family socioeconomic status on children’s academic performance as mediated by their home environment and children’s characteristics, with special attention to gender differences. Structural modeling was applied to a nationally representative...
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Quasi-household economy: Rethinking homelessness in post-socialist Pilsen and beyond

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Autoři: Vašát, Petr
The paper repositions homelessness in existing cities by highlighting the importance of transformative economic agency. Relying on a combination of long-term ethnographic research in the city of Pilsen, a traditional industrial second-order city in Czechia, and political–economic...
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