The project aims to analyse the links between living conditions and their perceptions in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak households. After the trends in aggregate indicators of socio-economic development are identified, questions will be raised about the degree and character of congruence among them. Using various data sources on the household level, inequality in and factors of objective well-being will be contrasted with perceived satisfaction by country and period since 1990. Comparative EU surveys will then be analysed to investigate the changing links since 2005 between material well-being and making ends meet both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Two opposing explanations will be put forth: 1. the objective state is not perceived appropriately, and we should seek the reasons of that; 2. objective indicators are insufficient to explain living conditions in a wider sense. The project will conclude by establishing the interactions between objective and subjective indicators that need to be observed by research and considered by policies.
measurement of well-being;household income;subjective indicators;satisfaction; happiness
Project publications (total 4, displaying 1 - 4)
The article drafts problems on the interface of the objective and subjective indicators. In the first section, multi-dimensional approaches are tackled and in the second, concepts of happiness and satisfaction are overviewed. The relationship between economic growth and human happiness is described next. In the fourth section, data on reported happiness in the Czech Republic, ready for analysis and comparison, are described.
The basic structure of gender wage gaps, based on the EU-SILC 2008 dataset, is to a great extent similar for the Czech and Slovak Republics. A relatively small but positive part of the observed gender wage gap can be explained by gender differences in characteristics in the Czech and Slovak Republics, with a high contribution of job characteristics. An opposite result proved in Hungary and Poland, where working women have on average even better characteristics than working men.
Šetření European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) je důležitým zdrojem komparativním statistických dat. Ačkoli je šetření harmonizováno Eurostatem, individuální mikrodata obsahují mnoho rozdílů mezi zúčastněnými zeměmi, které vznikají kvůli odlišnostem v národních podmínkách, ve způsobu sběru dat či v jejich zpracování. Cílem tohoto článku je zhodnotit možnosti a omezení dat EU-SILC.
The potential provided by survey data for studying simultaneous changes in earnings disparities, inequality of household income, and the connections between them has thus far been underexploited. This paper presents various data on four Central and East European (CEE) countries, as well as some data on Austria and Germany for the sake of comparison.
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