Milada Rabušicová
Biographic Data
| ID | 5945189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milada Rabušicová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milada |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabušicová |
| SIGNATURE | RABUŠICOVÁ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1488-9464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Value Modernisation in Central and Eastern European Countries
An intergenerational shift from more pro-family norms to individual-choice norms has been taking place since the 1980s. Conditions of economic and social security positively contributed to this shift especially in high-income countries. In this paper, we study the modernisation change on value structures in selected Central and Eastern European countries and compare them with Western European ones and look at the generational differences. We firs…
Some Notes on the Obsession of the Czech Social Sciences with Statistical Significance
The article explains the various errors that occur in the use of the concept of statistical signifi cance. It points to the problem of census, nonprobability sampling, sampling of small populations and small samples. Another topic is the use of statistical methods on aggregated data fi les, especially from international research, and on weighted data. The authors point out that in many cases the use of statistical signifi cance is not appropriate…
One-child Families in the Czech Republic. Who Are the People Who Have or Plan to Have Just One Child
The article tackles the phenomenon of the one-child family in the Czech Republic. The authors try to answer the question of whether it is possible to expect that a signifi cant proportion of Czech fertility intentions will be fulfi lled when families conceive and give birth to an only child. Can it be assumed that one-child families will be a signifi cant phenomenon in Czech society in the years to come? To answer the questions the authors used t…
Adult Education in the Czech Republic - Who Participates and Why
Adult education as a part of lifelong learning is nowadays the topic emphasised in all documents concerning educational policy, employment policy, and human resources development in the Czech Republic. Older empirical data indicate, however, that the participation of the Czech adult population in programmes of adult learning is not very common. The aim of this article, which is based on a special representative survey, 'Adult Learning 2005', is t…
Why Are They All So Eager to Retire?(On the Transition to Retirement in the Czech Republic)
In an ageing Czech society, the age of retirement has become an important issue in the debates over how to reform the pension system. In this article, which deals with the transition to retirement, the central questions posed are what perspective Czechs have on the timing of their retirement, and whether they are beginning to prepare themselves for the eventuality that they will have to retire much later than has thus far been the case. Using the…
Value Change and Demographic Behaviour in the Czech Republic
The deep structural changes witnessed in the Czech Republic in the past decade, that is, the establishment of a democratic political regime and market economy, and the transformation of the social security system, could not have steered clear of the everyday life and behavioural patterns of the Czech population. One of the areas that have been profoundly affected is demographic behaviour. Marriage and fertility rates in particular have decreased …
Is Czech Society 'Post-materialist
The main aim of this paper is to introduce Ingehart's way of measuring post-materialism. The paper does this in four parts. Firstly, it describes briefly the actual concept of 'post-materialism', secondly it shows how post-materialism is measured in social surveys and the proper indexes are computed. In the third part, it uses Czech(oslovak) survey data from WVS 1990 and EVS 1991 to show that Inglehart's twelve item battery does not work in the C…
The Czech Welfare State and Its Legitimacy
This paper deals with the problem of legitimacy of Czech social policy. Firstly, by means of data from various social surveys, it describes the gradual shift of value preferences of the Czech population from liberal to social democratic, and then analyses how the changes in Czech social policy have been accepted by public opinion and what kind of changes are required. The main conclusion is that the requirements of the Czech public are probably n…
The Sexual Behaviour of Adolescents and HIV Risk
Although the number of HIV-infected persons registered in the Czech Republic might seem very low, the authors caution against false optimism and point out the risky sexual behaviour of Czech youth, who in spite of having solid knowledge about HIV/AIDS do not apply it consistently in their sexual practice. Upon the analysis of this paradox, based primarily on the data collected in Brno in 1997, the authors suggest replacing the so-far preferred ra…
Welfare State Solidarity and Support. The Czech Republic and the Netherlands in Comparison
Public support and solidarity influence the process of the restructuring of the welfare state, in line with increasing economic pressures, demographic and societal changes. The paper aims at investigating the degree of solidarity which backs up the principles of social policy in the Czech Republic, as well as the level of public support for individual measures that were implemented during the transformation of the system and which have significan…
Temporal Aspects of the Czech Retirement Age
The retirement age in the Czech Republic was 60 years for men and 55 years for women until 1995, when a law was passed to gradually increase it every year until it reached 62 years for men and 59 for women by the year 2007. The reason for increasing the retirement age is the rapid increase in life expectancy since 1990 (a gain of 3 years for males between 1990 and 1997) and the fact that a relatively low retirement age may result in social discri…
Are the Czech Elderly Poor
The paper is interested in the economic dimension of population ageing and seeks to answer the question of whether the Czech retired elderly are poor or not. In doing so the author analyses at first various objective indicators of their standard of living (e.g. relation of mean income and mean pension, pension income inequalities, the proportion of the elderly who are below the Czech poverty line, consumption patterns etc.), and secondly using th…
Poverty of the Czech Elderly - Myth or Reality
Poverty among the Czech elderly is considered from two perspectives: objective and subjective. Various indicators of objective poverty are analysed, such as the relation of average monthly income to average old-age pension, pension inequalities, the structure of household expenditures, and the structure of consumer durables ownership, as are representative survey data measuring subjective poverty. It is concluded that from the objective point of …
How to Understand Population Projections
As a consequence of profound changes in the demographic behaviour of the Czech population, results of population projections have become an important part of transformation debates and discussions. Sometimes there has been a tendency to accept population projections data uncritically. In its first part, this paper informs Czech sociologists about some problems and about some critical points of population forecasting. Then results of some recent p…
Subjective Perception of Poverty in the Czech Republic
Poverty has once again become a legitimate subject of social policy discussions in the Czech republic. These discussions have raised, as in other developed countries, the questions of how to measure poverty. This article firstly describes the various possibilities foreign economists and sociologists usually use to define and measure poverty. In the second part, it applies the Leyden Subjective Poverty Line method and brings data on Czech subjecti…
Is Czech Society Anomic
Any social change is characteristic of profound changes in the social norms and cultural patterns by which the life of society is organised. This can bring about anomie. The paper introduces Srole's anomie scale as a means of measuring anomie and shows in the survey data that this methodological tool is also appropriate for Czech society. Next, the distribution of anomie among different social categories (e.g. rural and urban residents, age, clas…
Value Change and Demographic Behaviour in the Czech Republic
The deep structural changes witnessed in the Czech Republic in the past decade, that is, the establishment of a democratic political regime and market economy, and the transformation of the social security system, could not have steered clear of the everyday life and behavioural patterns of the Czech population. One of the areas that have been profoundly affected is demographic behaviour. Marriage and fertility rates in particular have decreased …
Some Notes on the Obsession of the Czech Social Sciences with Statistical Significance
The article explains the various errors that occur in the use of the concept of statistical signifi cance. It points to the problem of census, nonprobability sampling, sampling of small populations and small samples. Another topic is the use of statistical methods on aggregated data fi les, especially from international research, and on weighted data. The authors point out that in many cases the use of statistical signifi cance is not appropriate…
The Czech Welfare State and Its Legitimacy
This paper deals with the problem of legitimacy of Czech social policy. Firstly, by means of data from various social surveys, it describes the gradual shift of value preferences of the Czech population from liberal to social democratic, and then analyses how the changes in Czech social policy have been accepted by public opinion and what kind of changes are required. The main conclusion is that the requirements of the Czech public are probably n…
Why Are They All So Eager to Retire?(On the Transition to Retirement in the Czech Republic)
In an ageing Czech society, the age of retirement has become an important issue in the debates over how to reform the pension system. In this article, which deals with the transition to retirement, the central questions posed are what perspective Czechs have on the timing of their retirement, and whether they are beginning to prepare themselves for the eventuality that they will have to retire much later than has thus far been the case. Using the…
Subjective Perception of Poverty in the Czech Republic
Poverty has once again become a legitimate subject of social policy discussions in the Czech republic. These discussions have raised, as in other developed countries, the questions of how to measure poverty. This article firstly describes the various possibilities foreign economists and sociologists usually use to define and measure poverty. In the second part, it applies the Leyden Subjective Poverty Line method and brings data on Czech subjecti…
Value Modernisation in Central and Eastern European Countries
An intergenerational shift from more pro-family norms to individual-choice norms has been taking place since the 1980s. Conditions of economic and social security positively contributed to this shift especially in high-income countries. In this paper, we study the modernisation change on value structures in selected Central and Eastern European countries and compare them with Western European ones and look at the generational differences. We firs…
One-child Families in the Czech Republic. Who Are the People Who Have or Plan to Have Just One Child
The article tackles the phenomenon of the one-child family in the Czech Republic. The authors try to answer the question of whether it is possible to expect that a signifi cant proportion of Czech fertility intentions will be fulfi lled when families conceive and give birth to an only child. Can it be assumed that one-child families will be a signifi cant phenomenon in Czech society in the years to come? To answer the questions the authors used t…
Is Czech Society Anomic
Any social change is characteristic of profound changes in the social norms and cultural patterns by which the life of society is organised. This can bring about anomie. The paper introduces Srole's anomie scale as a means of measuring anomie and shows in the survey data that this methodological tool is also appropriate for Czech society. Next, the distribution of anomie among different social categories (e.g. rural and urban residents, age, clas…
Adult Education in the Czech Republic - Who Participates and Why
Adult education as a part of lifelong learning is nowadays the topic emphasised in all documents concerning educational policy, employment policy, and human resources development in the Czech Republic. Older empirical data indicate, however, that the participation of the Czech adult population in programmes of adult learning is not very common. The aim of this article, which is based on a special representative survey, 'Adult Learning 2005', is t…
Welfare State Solidarity and Support. The Czech Republic and the Netherlands in Comparison
Public support and solidarity influence the process of the restructuring of the welfare state, in line with increasing economic pressures, demographic and societal changes. The paper aims at investigating the degree of solidarity which backs up the principles of social policy in the Czech Republic, as well as the level of public support for individual measures that were implemented during the transformation of the system and which have significan…
Poverty of the Czech Elderly - Myth or Reality
Poverty among the Czech elderly is considered from two perspectives: objective and subjective. Various indicators of objective poverty are analysed, such as the relation of average monthly income to average old-age pension, pension inequalities, the structure of household expenditures, and the structure of consumer durables ownership, as are representative survey data measuring subjective poverty. It is concluded that from the objective point of …
Subjective Perception of Poverty in the Czech Republic
Poverty has once again become a legitimate subject of social policy discussions in the Czech republic. These discussions have raised, as in other developed countries, the questions of how to measure poverty. This article firstly describes the various possibilities foreign economists and sociologists usually use to define and measure poverty. In the second part, it applies the Leyden Subjective Poverty Line method and brings data on Czech subjecti…
Is Czech Society Anomic
Any social change is characteristic of profound changes in the social norms and cultural patterns by which the life of society is organised. This can bring about anomie. The paper introduces Srole's anomie scale as a means of measuring anomie and shows in the survey data that this methodological tool is also appropriate for Czech society. Next, the distribution of anomie among different social categories (e.g. rural and urban residents, age, clas…
How to Understand Population Projections
As a consequence of profound changes in the demographic behaviour of the Czech population, results of population projections have become an important part of transformation debates and discussions. Sometimes there has been a tendency to accept population projections data uncritically. In its first part, this paper informs Czech sociologists about some problems and about some critical points of population forecasting. Then results of some recent p…
Temporal Aspects of the Czech Retirement Age
The retirement age in the Czech Republic was 60 years for men and 55 years for women until 1995, when a law was passed to gradually increase it every year until it reached 62 years for men and 59 for women by the year 2007. The reason for increasing the retirement age is the rapid increase in life expectancy since 1990 (a gain of 3 years for males between 1990 and 1997) and the fact that a relatively low retirement age may result in social discri…
Are the Czech Elderly Poor
The paper is interested in the economic dimension of population ageing and seeks to answer the question of whether the Czech retired elderly are poor or not. In doing so the author analyses at first various objective indicators of their standard of living (e.g. relation of mean income and mean pension, pension income inequalities, the proportion of the elderly who are below the Czech poverty line, consumption patterns etc.), and secondly using th…
Poverty of the Czech Elderly - Myth or Reality
Poverty among the Czech elderly is considered from two perspectives: objective and subjective. Various indicators of objective poverty are analysed, such as the relation of average monthly income to average old-age pension, pension inequalities, the structure of household expenditures, and the structure of consumer durables ownership, as are representative survey data measuring subjective poverty. It is concluded that from the objective point of …
The Czech Welfare State and Its Legitimacy
This paper deals with the problem of legitimacy of Czech social policy. Firstly, by means of data from various social surveys, it describes the gradual shift of value preferences of the Czech population from liberal to social democratic, and then analyses how the changes in Czech social policy have been accepted by public opinion and what kind of changes are required. The main conclusion is that the requirements of the Czech public are probably n…
The Sexual Behaviour of Adolescents and HIV Risk
Although the number of HIV-infected persons registered in the Czech Republic might seem very low, the authors caution against false optimism and point out the risky sexual behaviour of Czech youth, who in spite of having solid knowledge about HIV/AIDS do not apply it consistently in their sexual practice. Upon the analysis of this paradox, based primarily on the data collected in Brno in 1997, the authors suggest replacing the so-far preferred ra…
Welfare State Solidarity and Support. The Czech Republic and the Netherlands in Comparison
Public support and solidarity influence the process of the restructuring of the welfare state, in line with increasing economic pressures, demographic and societal changes. The paper aims at investigating the degree of solidarity which backs up the principles of social policy in the Czech Republic, as well as the level of public support for individual measures that were implemented during the transformation of the system and which have significan…
Is Czech Society 'Post-materialist
The main aim of this paper is to introduce Ingehart's way of measuring post-materialism. The paper does this in four parts. Firstly, it describes briefly the actual concept of 'post-materialism', secondly it shows how post-materialism is measured in social surveys and the proper indexes are computed. In the third part, it uses Czech(oslovak) survey data from WVS 1990 and EVS 1991 to show that Inglehart's twelve item battery does not work in the C…
Value Change and Demographic Behaviour in the Czech Republic
The deep structural changes witnessed in the Czech Republic in the past decade, that is, the establishment of a democratic political regime and market economy, and the transformation of the social security system, could not have steered clear of the everyday life and behavioural patterns of the Czech population. One of the areas that have been profoundly affected is demographic behaviour. Marriage and fertility rates in particular have decreased …
Why Are They All So Eager to Retire?(On the Transition to Retirement in the Czech Republic)
In an ageing Czech society, the age of retirement has become an important issue in the debates over how to reform the pension system. In this article, which deals with the transition to retirement, the central questions posed are what perspective Czechs have on the timing of their retirement, and whether they are beginning to prepare themselves for the eventuality that they will have to retire much later than has thus far been the case. Using the…
Adult Education in the Czech Republic - Who Participates and Why
Adult education as a part of lifelong learning is nowadays the topic emphasised in all documents concerning educational policy, employment policy, and human resources development in the Czech Republic. Older empirical data indicate, however, that the participation of the Czech adult population in programmes of adult learning is not very common. The aim of this article, which is based on a special representative survey, 'Adult Learning 2005', is t…
Some Notes on the Obsession of the Czech Social Sciences with Statistical Significance
The article explains the various errors that occur in the use of the concept of statistical signifi cance. It points to the problem of census, nonprobability sampling, sampling of small populations and small samples. Another topic is the use of statistical methods on aggregated data fi les, especially from international research, and on weighted data. The authors point out that in many cases the use of statistical signifi cance is not appropriate…
One-child Families in the Czech Republic. Who Are the People Who Have or Plan to Have Just One Child
The article tackles the phenomenon of the one-child family in the Czech Republic. The authors try to answer the question of whether it is possible to expect that a signifi cant proportion of Czech fertility intentions will be fulfi lled when families conceive and give birth to an only child. Can it be assumed that one-child families will be a signifi cant phenomenon in Czech society in the years to come? To answer the questions the authors used t…
Value Modernisation in Central and Eastern European Countries
An intergenerational shift from more pro-family norms to individual-choice norms has been taking place since the 1980s. Conditions of economic and social security positively contributed to this shift especially in high-income countries. In this paper, we study the modernisation change on value structures in selected Central and Eastern European countries and compare them with Western European ones and look at the generational differences. We firs…
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