T Katrnak
Biographic Data
| ID | 245783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Katrnak |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Katrnak |
| SIGNATURE | KATRNAK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2557-302X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries
Gender Gap Closure and Reversal
Structural opportunities or assortative mating? – Decomposing trends and country differences in educational sorting outcomes in marriages
This study examines within- and cross-country trends and differences in marital sorting by education in Europe. Unlike previous research on assortative mating, our study focuses on the outcomes of the partner search process. We investigate how variations in (a) structural opportunities (educational composition of potential partners) and (b) assortative mating (non-random matching by education) have shaped trends and differences in educational sor…
The Gender-gap Reversal in Tertiary Education and Its Implications for Inequality of Educational Opportunity in European Countries
Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Tertiary Education in Europe
In this paper, we examine (1) whether parental educational homogamy is associated with children’s tertiary educational attainment in different European countries and (2) whether this association is moderated by families’ educational backgrounds. Using data from the European Social Survey and multilevel logistic regression models, we find that parental homogamy is important for children’s tertiary educational attainment. In particular, children of…
Does educational expansion decrease suicide rates in European countries? The compositional effect in educational stratification of suicides
Transitional Inequality Offset
Educational expansion has been taking place in European countries since 2000. We address the relationship between this educational expansion and the inequality of educational opportunity (IEO) by educational origin. We analyse the European Social Survey data from 20 European countries over five rounds (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018). Our analysis is restricted to the 25–34 age groups. We use a multilevel sequential logit (MLSL) model for three…
Change in prevalence or preference? Trends in educational homogamy in six European countries in a time of educational expansion
Is Education Becoming a Weaker Determinant of Occupation? Educational Expansion and Occupational Returns to Education in 30 European Countries
This article examines the relationship between education and occupation over the course of educational expansion. The authors analyse European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) data from 2014, 2015, and 2016 from 30 European countries and work with 12 graduated cohorts defined by the year in which they left the education system (2003–2014). They use a multilevel model approach and measure education in both absolute and relative terms. The result…
Economic and Non-economic Returns to Higher Education during a Period of Educational Expansion in the Czech Republic
The article explores returns to education during a period of educational expansion in the Czech Republic. The authors analyse the consequences of the educational expansion that occurred between 2000 and 2014 and its effect on economic and non-economic returns to education. The number of people with a university degree almost doubled between 2000 and 2014 in the Czech Republic. It is analysed whether this caused an inflation of education at the Cz…
Inglehart's scarcity hypothesis revisited
Inglehart's theory of postmaterialism hinged on the scarcity hypothesis, according to which the spread of postmaterialist values depends on the degree of individuals' and societies' existential security, rooted in macro-level economic conditions. But does a country's level of economic development systematically shape individuals' existential security, and thus postmaterialism? In this article, the authors revisit this question by utilizing 2010-2…
From quantitative to qualitative differences
Ethnic Homogamy in Slovakia between 1992 and 2012
This article is concerned with ethnic homogamy in Slovakia. The authors set out from the assumption that ethnic homogamy is an indicator of the degree of ethnic tolerance and multiculturalism in society. Greater ethnic homogamy indicates larger social distances between ethnic groups, and vice versa. The authors analyse data from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. The data include all marriages between 1992 and 2012 in Slovakia categor…
Social Determinants of Suicides in the Czech Republic between 1995 and 2010
The text is concerned with suicides in the Czech Republic. It seeks to determine which social variables, and to what extent, have affected suicidal behaviour since 1989. The authors draw on Durkheim's theory that society prevents suicidal tendencies. They formulate six hypotheses to account for the effects of social variables (year, sex, age, education, and marital status) on suicide rates, which they test using data from 1995 to 2010. Their find…
The Notion of Social Class in Czech Political Discourse
The article studies the discourse on social class that emerged around the Czech parliamentary election of 2010. The authors look at Czech discourse from the perspective of the wider discussion about the role that the notion of class plays in post-communist societies. While some researchers argue that social class is absent as a category within post-communist political discourse, other researchers report the existence of derogatory discourse on th…
From Differentiation to Diversification
The article deals with secondary education in the Czech Republic between 2000 and 2010. The authors analyse the consequences of educational expansion on unequal chances by social origin of attaining a secondary education with a school-leaving certificate ('maturita'). This certificate is a prerequisite for the transition to tertiary education in the Czech educational system. The article is based on the theories of maximally maintained inequality …
Classes and Castles
Housing conditions form an important part of social stratification in many advanced industrial economies. The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which social stratification is linked to housing inequalities in the post-socialist Czech Republic; and how this relationship has evolved during the course of the economic transformation process. With the fall of socialism the country adopted a market economic system and the Czech so…
The relationship between educational homogamy and educational mobility in 29 European countries
This article deals with the relationship between educational homogamy and educational mobility in 29 European countries. It answers three interrelated questions: (1) Is there any relationship between educational mobility and educational homogamy? (2) Does educational homogamy diverge from educational mobility (negative relationship) or does educational heterogamy strengthen educational mobility (positive relationship)? (3) If there is any positiv…
Intergenerational Educational Fluidity and Its Trends in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009
The aim of the article is to identify the trend in educational fluidity in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009 and offer an explanation for it. The authors use a series of 28 annual surveys conducted between 1990 and 2009 in the Czech Republic and ascertaining information about the level of education of the respondent and the respondent's father. The authors analyse trends in educational fluidity from a period and birth cohort perspective. T…
Faktory podmiňující vzdělanostní aspirace a vzdělanostní segregaci dívek a chlapců v českém vzdělávacím systému [Factors behind the Educational Aspirations and Educational Segregation of Girls and Boy…
Factors behind the educational aspirations and educational segregation of girls
Empirické přístupy v sociálně stratifikačním výzkumu vzdělanostních nerovností [Empirical Approaches in Social Stratification Research on Educational Inequalities]
This article provides a look at the main turning points in research on educational inequalities, both at the level of the fi eld's subject matter and its methodology. The text focuses on authors and concepts that in their time constituted a major innovation, signifi cantly advancing analysis and knowledge in the fi eld of research on educational inequalities. In the article the authors propose viewing researchers in the fi eld of educational ineq…
The Employed and the Unemployed in the Czech Labour Market between 1998 and 2004
The article focuses on the development of the labour market in the Czech Republic from the perspective of employment and unemployment between 1998 and 2004. Using data from the Czech Statistical Offi ce, and within a reference framework of EU countries, the authors discuss and analyse the factors that determine unemployment and employment in Czech society. The authors use latent logistic regression to verify the assumption that the odds of unempl…
Trends in Educational Assortative Mating in Central Europe
The article analyses trends in educational homogamy in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary from 1988 to 2000. Our hypothesis is that educational homogamy strengthened in post-socialist countries as a result of changing socio-economic conditions during the post-communist transformation. We argue that people’s behaviour changes in reaction to a new socio-economic environment, in which the risks associated with a poor marital match are…
Has the Post-communist Transformation Led to an Increase in Educational Homogamy in the Czech Republic after 1989
This article analyses trends in educational homogamy in Czech society from 1988 to 2000. Two hypotheses are tested: (1) that educational homogamy strengthened as a result of growing economic uncertainty during the 1990s, and (2) that educational homogamy is higher among younger newlyweds than among people who get married after 30 years of age. The authors analyse vital statistics data on all new marriages for the years 1988, 1991, 1993, 1997 and …
The Marriage Squeeze and the Decline in the Number of Marriages in the Czech Republic in the 1990s
Classes and Castles
Housing conditions form an important part of social stratification in many advanced industrial economies. The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which social stratification is linked to housing inequalities in the post-socialist Czech Republic; and how this relationship has evolved during the course of the economic transformation process. With the fall of socialism the country adopted a market economic system and the Czech so…
Inglehart's scarcity hypothesis revisited
Inglehart's theory of postmaterialism hinged on the scarcity hypothesis, according to which the spread of postmaterialist values depends on the degree of individuals' and societies' existential security, rooted in macro-level economic conditions. But does a country's level of economic development systematically shape individuals' existential security, and thus postmaterialism? In this article, the authors revisit this question by utilizing 2010-2…
The relationship between educational homogamy and educational mobility in 29 European countries
This article deals with the relationship between educational homogamy and educational mobility in 29 European countries. It answers three interrelated questions: (1) Is there any relationship between educational mobility and educational homogamy? (2) Does educational homogamy diverge from educational mobility (negative relationship) or does educational heterogamy strengthen educational mobility (positive relationship)? (3) If there is any positiv…
From Differentiation to Diversification
The article deals with secondary education in the Czech Republic between 2000 and 2010. The authors analyse the consequences of educational expansion on unequal chances by social origin of attaining a secondary education with a school-leaving certificate ('maturita'). This certificate is a prerequisite for the transition to tertiary education in the Czech educational system. The article is based on the theories of maximally maintained inequality …
The Notion of Social Class in Czech Political Discourse
The article studies the discourse on social class that emerged around the Czech parliamentary election of 2010. The authors look at Czech discourse from the perspective of the wider discussion about the role that the notion of class plays in post-communist societies. While some researchers argue that social class is absent as a category within post-communist political discourse, other researchers report the existence of derogatory discourse on th…
The Employed and the Unemployed in the Czech Labour Market between 1998 and 2004
The article focuses on the development of the labour market in the Czech Republic from the perspective of employment and unemployment between 1998 and 2004. Using data from the Czech Statistical Offi ce, and within a reference framework of EU countries, the authors discuss and analyse the factors that determine unemployment and employment in Czech society. The authors use latent logistic regression to verify the assumption that the odds of unempl…
Has the Post-communist Transformation Led to an Increase in Educational Homogamy in the Czech Republic after 1989
This article analyses trends in educational homogamy in Czech society from 1988 to 2000. Two hypotheses are tested: (1) that educational homogamy strengthened as a result of growing economic uncertainty during the 1990s, and (2) that educational homogamy is higher among younger newlyweds than among people who get married after 30 years of age. The authors analyse vital statistics data on all new marriages for the years 1988, 1991, 1993, 1997 and …
Is Education Becoming a Weaker Determinant of Occupation? Educational Expansion and Occupational Returns to Education in 30 European Countries
This article examines the relationship between education and occupation over the course of educational expansion. The authors analyse European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) data from 2014, 2015, and 2016 from 30 European countries and work with 12 graduated cohorts defined by the year in which they left the education system (2003–2014). They use a multilevel model approach and measure education in both absolute and relative terms. The result…
From quantitative to qualitative differences
Trends in Educational Assortative Mating in Central Europe
The article analyses trends in educational homogamy in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary from 1988 to 2000. Our hypothesis is that educational homogamy strengthened in post-socialist countries as a result of changing socio-economic conditions during the post-communist transformation. We argue that people’s behaviour changes in reaction to a new socio-economic environment, in which the risks associated with a poor marital match are…
Structural opportunities or assortative mating? – Decomposing trends and country differences in educational sorting outcomes in marriages
This study examines within- and cross-country trends and differences in marital sorting by education in Europe. Unlike previous research on assortative mating, our study focuses on the outcomes of the partner search process. We investigate how variations in (a) structural opportunities (educational composition of potential partners) and (b) assortative mating (non-random matching by education) have shaped trends and differences in educational sor…
The Gender-gap Reversal in Tertiary Education and Its Implications for Inequality of Educational Opportunity in European Countries
Change in prevalence or preference? Trends in educational homogamy in six European countries in a time of educational expansion
Faktory podmiňující vzdělanostní aspirace a vzdělanostní segregaci dívek a chlapců v českém vzdělávacím systému [Factors behind the Educational Aspirations and Educational Segregation of Girls and Boy…
Factors behind the educational aspirations and educational segregation of girls
Empirické přístupy v sociálně stratifikačním výzkumu vzdělanostních nerovností [Empirical Approaches in Social Stratification Research on Educational Inequalities]
This article provides a look at the main turning points in research on educational inequalities, both at the level of the fi eld's subject matter and its methodology. The text focuses on authors and concepts that in their time constituted a major innovation, signifi cantly advancing analysis and knowledge in the fi eld of research on educational inequalities. In the article the authors propose viewing researchers in the fi eld of educational ineq…
Structural Causes of the Decline in the Number of Marriages and the Increase in the Number of Single Women and Men in the Czech Republic in the 1990s
Czech society has undergone substantial demographic changes. The marital rate has been falling rapidly. This paper deals with the question as to why this has happened. Some demographers and sociologists have suggested that young people are only postponing marriage because Czech society is currently going through a transitional period. But the expected increase in the number of marriages concluded by single people has not happened -not even ten ye…
Transitional Inequality Offset
Educational expansion has been taking place in European countries since 2000. We address the relationship between this educational expansion and the inequality of educational opportunity (IEO) by educational origin. We analyse the European Social Survey data from 20 European countries over five rounds (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018). Our analysis is restricted to the 25–34 age groups. We use a multilevel sequential logit (MLSL) model for three…
Economic and Non-economic Returns to Higher Education during a Period of Educational Expansion in the Czech Republic
The article explores returns to education during a period of educational expansion in the Czech Republic. The authors analyse the consequences of the educational expansion that occurred between 2000 and 2014 and its effect on economic and non-economic returns to education. The number of people with a university degree almost doubled between 2000 and 2014 in the Czech Republic. It is analysed whether this caused an inflation of education at the Cz…
Intergenerational Educational Fluidity and Its Trends in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009
The aim of the article is to identify the trend in educational fluidity in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009 and offer an explanation for it. The authors use a series of 28 annual surveys conducted between 1990 and 2009 in the Czech Republic and ascertaining information about the level of education of the respondent and the respondent's father. The authors analyse trends in educational fluidity from a period and birth cohort perspective. T…
Science and How versus Life and Why
This article deals with the conceptions of social science of Max Weber and Karl Mannheim. The focus is on these two thinkers' analyses of social science at the beginning of the 20th century. More specifically, it concerns the role performed by social science in the thought of Max Weber and Karl Mannheim in the process of constructing the meaning of being
The Problem of the Relation between Religiousness and Anomie
This study is based on the presumption of a similar distribution of religiousness and anomie in the same categories of social stratification. The author specifically discusses Catholic religiousness and anomie in Srole's context. The aim in this study is to explain the high degree of Catholic religiousness and Srole's anomie present at the same time in the same social categories, such as the elderly, the poor, the lower class and those with lower…
Modern Partner Relationships and their Transformation in the Age of Late Modernity
This essay deals with the transformation of modern partner relationships in the age of late modernity. The first part characterises modern partner relationships, showing that they are based on a process of self-disclosure of mutual truth which is connected with the construction of social reality, the redefinition of identity and the perception of sexuality. The age of late modernity brings about a sense of doubtfulness toward truth. In this momen…
Structural Causes of the Decline in the Number of Marriages and the Increase in the Number of Single Women and Men in the Czech Republic in the 1990s
Czech society has undergone substantial demographic changes. The marital rate has been falling rapidly. This paper deals with the question as to why this has happened. Some demographers and sociologists have suggested that young people are only postponing marriage because Czech society is currently going through a transitional period. But the expected increase in the number of marriages concluded by single people has not happened -not even ten ye…
The Marriage Squeeze and the Decline in the Number of Marriages in the Czech Republic in the 1990s
Has the Post-communist Transformation Led to an Increase in Educational Homogamy in the Czech Republic after 1989
This article analyses trends in educational homogamy in Czech society from 1988 to 2000. Two hypotheses are tested: (1) that educational homogamy strengthened as a result of growing economic uncertainty during the 1990s, and (2) that educational homogamy is higher among younger newlyweds than among people who get married after 30 years of age. The authors analyse vital statistics data on all new marriages for the years 1988, 1991, 1993, 1997 and …
Trends in Educational Assortative Mating in Central Europe
The article analyses trends in educational homogamy in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary from 1988 to 2000. Our hypothesis is that educational homogamy strengthened in post-socialist countries as a result of changing socio-economic conditions during the post-communist transformation. We argue that people’s behaviour changes in reaction to a new socio-economic environment, in which the risks associated with a poor marital match are…
The Employed and the Unemployed in the Czech Labour Market between 1998 and 2004
The article focuses on the development of the labour market in the Czech Republic from the perspective of employment and unemployment between 1998 and 2004. Using data from the Czech Statistical Offi ce, and within a reference framework of EU countries, the authors discuss and analyse the factors that determine unemployment and employment in Czech society. The authors use latent logistic regression to verify the assumption that the odds of unempl…
Faktory podmiňující vzdělanostní aspirace a vzdělanostní segregaci dívek a chlapců v českém vzdělávacím systému [Factors behind the Educational Aspirations and Educational Segregation of Girls and Boy…
Factors behind the educational aspirations and educational segregation of girls
Empirické přístupy v sociálně stratifikačním výzkumu vzdělanostních nerovností [Empirical Approaches in Social Stratification Research on Educational Inequalities]
This article provides a look at the main turning points in research on educational inequalities, both at the level of the fi eld's subject matter and its methodology. The text focuses on authors and concepts that in their time constituted a major innovation, signifi cantly advancing analysis and knowledge in the fi eld of research on educational inequalities. In the article the authors propose viewing researchers in the fi eld of educational ineq…
Intergenerational Educational Fluidity and Its Trends in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009
The aim of the article is to identify the trend in educational fluidity in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009 and offer an explanation for it. The authors use a series of 28 annual surveys conducted between 1990 and 2009 in the Czech Republic and ascertaining information about the level of education of the respondent and the respondent's father. The authors analyse trends in educational fluidity from a period and birth cohort perspective. T…
The relationship between educational homogamy and educational mobility in 29 European countries
This article deals with the relationship between educational homogamy and educational mobility in 29 European countries. It answers three interrelated questions: (1) Is there any relationship between educational mobility and educational homogamy? (2) Does educational homogamy diverge from educational mobility (negative relationship) or does educational heterogamy strengthen educational mobility (positive relationship)? (3) If there is any positiv…
From Differentiation to Diversification
The article deals with secondary education in the Czech Republic between 2000 and 2010. The authors analyse the consequences of educational expansion on unequal chances by social origin of attaining a secondary education with a school-leaving certificate ('maturita'). This certificate is a prerequisite for the transition to tertiary education in the Czech educational system. The article is based on the theories of maximally maintained inequality …
Classes and Castles
Housing conditions form an important part of social stratification in many advanced industrial economies. The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which social stratification is linked to housing inequalities in the post-socialist Czech Republic; and how this relationship has evolved during the course of the economic transformation process. With the fall of socialism the country adopted a market economic system and the Czech so…
The Notion of Social Class in Czech Political Discourse
The article studies the discourse on social class that emerged around the Czech parliamentary election of 2010. The authors look at Czech discourse from the perspective of the wider discussion about the role that the notion of class plays in post-communist societies. While some researchers argue that social class is absent as a category within post-communist political discourse, other researchers report the existence of derogatory discourse on th…
From quantitative to qualitative differences
Ethnic Homogamy in Slovakia between 1992 and 2012
This article is concerned with ethnic homogamy in Slovakia. The authors set out from the assumption that ethnic homogamy is an indicator of the degree of ethnic tolerance and multiculturalism in society. Greater ethnic homogamy indicates larger social distances between ethnic groups, and vice versa. The authors analyse data from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. The data include all marriages between 1992 and 2012 in Slovakia categor…
Social Determinants of Suicides in the Czech Republic between 1995 and 2010
The text is concerned with suicides in the Czech Republic. It seeks to determine which social variables, and to what extent, have affected suicidal behaviour since 1989. The authors draw on Durkheim's theory that society prevents suicidal tendencies. They formulate six hypotheses to account for the effects of social variables (year, sex, age, education, and marital status) on suicide rates, which they test using data from 1995 to 2010. Their find…
Economic and Non-economic Returns to Higher Education during a Period of Educational Expansion in the Czech Republic
The article explores returns to education during a period of educational expansion in the Czech Republic. The authors analyse the consequences of the educational expansion that occurred between 2000 and 2014 and its effect on economic and non-economic returns to education. The number of people with a university degree almost doubled between 2000 and 2014 in the Czech Republic. It is analysed whether this caused an inflation of education at the Cz…
Inglehart's scarcity hypothesis revisited
Inglehart's theory of postmaterialism hinged on the scarcity hypothesis, according to which the spread of postmaterialist values depends on the degree of individuals' and societies' existential security, rooted in macro-level economic conditions. But does a country's level of economic development systematically shape individuals' existential security, and thus postmaterialism? In this article, the authors revisit this question by utilizing 2010-2…
Is Education Becoming a Weaker Determinant of Occupation? Educational Expansion and Occupational Returns to Education in 30 European Countries
This article examines the relationship between education and occupation over the course of educational expansion. The authors analyse European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) data from 2014, 2015, and 2016 from 30 European countries and work with 12 graduated cohorts defined by the year in which they left the education system (2003–2014). They use a multilevel model approach and measure education in both absolute and relative terms. The result…
Change in prevalence or preference? Trends in educational homogamy in six European countries in a time of educational expansion
Does educational expansion decrease suicide rates in European countries? The compositional effect in educational stratification of suicides
Transitional Inequality Offset
Educational expansion has been taking place in European countries since 2000. We address the relationship between this educational expansion and the inequality of educational opportunity (IEO) by educational origin. We analyse the European Social Survey data from 20 European countries over five rounds (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018). Our analysis is restricted to the 25–34 age groups. We use a multilevel sequential logit (MLSL) model for three…
Structural opportunities or assortative mating? – Decomposing trends and country differences in educational sorting outcomes in marriages
This study examines within- and cross-country trends and differences in marital sorting by education in Europe. Unlike previous research on assortative mating, our study focuses on the outcomes of the partner search process. We investigate how variations in (a) structural opportunities (educational composition of potential partners) and (b) assortative mating (non-random matching by education) have shaped trends and differences in educational sor…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (17 works) · Demographic economics (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Demography (14 works) · Czech (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Mathematics (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works)