Peter Robert
Biographic Data
| ID | 6104545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Robert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Robert |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | TÁRKI Social Research Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Like parent, like child? The intergenerational transmission of subjective well-being in Hungary
There is rising interest in linking research on subjective well-being and the intergenerational transmission of personality traits, attitudes, norms, values, subjective evaluations, and satisfaction. Beyond the mere study of the intergenerational transmission of well-being, there has been a growing focus on the influence of parenting practices and parenting performance on adolescents’ well-being. This analysis explores the effects of parenting on…
Individual and institutional influences on EU labour market returns to education
This paper explores cross-national variations in the impact of education on labour market outcomes using the risk of unemployment and occupational status as the key dependent variables. The study applies a comparative perspective on eight EU countries (three from CEE), representing different relationships between the education system and the labour market with various degrees of inequality, welfare provisions and labour market flexibility. A temp…
Mapping the Post-communist Class Structure
In this article, we define a schema for the class structure of Hungary, in which we consider a case for an Eastern-European capitalist system emerging from post-communist societies. Our schema is based on the findings of the Hungarian Class Survey, 2014. Using six measures of Bourdieusian economic, cultural, and social capital and applying the methodology of latent class analysis (LCA), we have constructed a model of eight LCA-based classes: uppe…
Stratification in Transition Economies
This entry discusses the drivers of social stratification in the former communist “transition economies.” These societies are defined by their move from an autocratic/totalitarian political system to a parliamentary/multiparty democracy and from a planned to a market economy. Theoretically, this realignment involves social devices that affect social inequality. Practically, continuity and discontinuity with the communist past are important when c…
Stratification in Transition Economies
Although one could argue that all economies are in transition, permanently, from one state to another, this entry will focus on former socialist societies, which have undergone a post‐communist transition both in a political and a socioeconomic sense. Accordingly, economies that experienced a transition to democracy but not to a market economy (e.g., countries in South America) are not considered. Thus, this entry provides information on developm…
Graduates in the Labour Market
This article looks at the status attainment process of young Hungarian graduates, devoting special attention to the impact of social origin, defi ned as the education and occupation of parents. The authors' estimates show that graduates from high status families enjoy notable advantages in the labour market, even when type of education, fi eld of study, and a range of labour market experience factors are held constant. The greatest wage-premium f…
Changes in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Hungary, 1973–2000
Investigates temporal changes in Hungarian mobility patterns. Large-scale data sets of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, collected between 1973 and 2000 are used for this purpose. In addition to descriptive statistics, log-linear and log-multiplicative models are fitted to the data in order to investigate trends of temporal changes. Descriptive results indicate that the restructuring of the class distribution slowed down in the 1980s in c…
Has educational sector any impact on school effectiveness in Hungary
The aim of the paper is to test whether the pupils of religious gymnasiums in Hungary have higher grades and a better opportunity to enter vocational college or university than comparable pupils of public gymnasiums have. For the first time the effectiveness of public and religious schools is compared in one of the former communist societies. Data are from a self-administered survey among 4th grade secondary school students in spring of 1998. Our…
Self-Selection and Selection. Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Education in Hungary
By law, students in Hungary, if they wish to study at the tertiary level, must submit a formal application (every year in February) and then must take an entrance exam (in June/July). When they pass this exam they are eligible to begin their studies (in September). This procedure divides the transition to tertiary education into two stages: self-selection (applying) and selection (passing the exam). Some of the recent literature in educational mo…
Union Disruption in Hungary
This article examines the impact of cultural background, human capital, and labor force participation on union disruption. To study these relationships, retrospective data are examined on the marital history of Hungarian residents taken from a national probability sample in 1992. The discrete time event history approach.is used to show the effects of different predictors on the odds of union disruption. Strong evidence was found for the positive …
Changes in status attainment in Hungary between 1910 and 1989
This article addresses the effects of economic and political change on social mobility in Hungary between 1910 and 1989 by investigating whether the effects of family background on schooling and the effects of family background and schooling on first occupation vary between periods in Hungary's twentieth-century history. For this purpose, we distinguish five periods: the long-lasting Depression (1910 to 1933), the period around the Second World W…
Who are the Entrepreneurs and Where Do They Come From? Transition to Self-employment Before, Under and After Communism in Hungary
(2000). Who are the Entrepreneurs and Where Do They Come From? Transition to Self-employment Before, Under and After Communism in Hungary. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 147-171
More Speculations, Fewer Facts on East-Central Europe
Social Determination of Living Conditions in Post-Communist Societies
Living conditions have played a special role in most of the former communist societies. After World War II, living conditions were controlled by the communist equality principle, while in the following decades living conditions improved and took on the role of legitimating the communist system. In this article we investigate the inequalities in living conditions in six post-communist societies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, a…
Attitudes Toward Inequality
National survey data from Hungary and eight capitalist countries in 1987 demonstrate that at that time Hungarian citizens were more egalitarian in their attitudes than citizens in capitalist countries. Within Hungary, the most significant class differences in such attitudes were between higher nonmanual employees and the remainder of the population. Temporal comparisons show no changes in such attitudes in Hungary between 1987 and 1992. Cross-nat…
Sociological and Historical Aspects of Entry into Marriage
This study analyses the timing of first entry into marriage of Hungarian men and women born between 1916 and 1967. Marriages take place at a considerably earlier age than the West European average, and at the same time show significant differences between cohorts. In the course of the analysis we consider the social and economic circumstances which affect the timing of entry into marriage, and we connect the variables of men and women's education…
Educational transition in Hungary from the post-war period to the end of the 1980s
This paper is a replication of the analysis by Andorka and Simkus of educational transition and its socio-economic determinants, based on data from 1973. The paper uses data from three surveys conducted at the end of the 1980s which together constitute a national representative probability sample of the Hungarian adult population. After the merging of these surveys from 1986, 1988, and 1989, the sample consisted of 11,999 respondents, born betwee…
Social Mobility in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary
(1989). Social Mobility in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 19, Class Structure in Europe New Findings from East-West Comparisons of Social Structure and Mobility, pp. 3-47
Educational transition in Hungary from the post-war period to the end of the 1980s
This paper is a replication of the analysis by Andorka and Simkus of educational transition and its socio-economic determinants, based on data from 1973. The paper uses data from three surveys conducted at the end of the 1980s which together constitute a national representative probability sample of the Hungarian adult population. After the merging of these surveys from 1986, 1988, and 1989, the sample consisted of 11,999 respondents, born betwee…
Changes in status attainment in Hungary between 1910 and 1989
This article addresses the effects of economic and political change on social mobility in Hungary between 1910 and 1989 by investigating whether the effects of family background on schooling and the effects of family background and schooling on first occupation vary between periods in Hungary's twentieth-century history. For this purpose, we distinguish five periods: the long-lasting Depression (1910 to 1933), the period around the Second World W…
Union Disruption in Hungary
This article examines the impact of cultural background, human capital, and labor force participation on union disruption. To study these relationships, retrospective data are examined on the marital history of Hungarian residents taken from a national probability sample in 1992. The discrete time event history approach.is used to show the effects of different predictors on the odds of union disruption. Strong evidence was found for the positive …
Mapping the Post-communist Class Structure
In this article, we define a schema for the class structure of Hungary, in which we consider a case for an Eastern-European capitalist system emerging from post-communist societies. Our schema is based on the findings of the Hungarian Class Survey, 2014. Using six measures of Bourdieusian economic, cultural, and social capital and applying the methodology of latent class analysis (LCA), we have constructed a model of eight LCA-based classes: uppe…
Has educational sector any impact on school effectiveness in Hungary
The aim of the paper is to test whether the pupils of religious gymnasiums in Hungary have higher grades and a better opportunity to enter vocational college or university than comparable pupils of public gymnasiums have. For the first time the effectiveness of public and religious schools is compared in one of the former communist societies. Data are from a self-administered survey among 4th grade secondary school students in spring of 1998. Our…
Attitudes Toward Inequality
National survey data from Hungary and eight capitalist countries in 1987 demonstrate that at that time Hungarian citizens were more egalitarian in their attitudes than citizens in capitalist countries. Within Hungary, the most significant class differences in such attitudes were between higher nonmanual employees and the remainder of the population. Temporal comparisons show no changes in such attitudes in Hungary between 1987 and 1992. Cross-nat…
Social Mobility in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary
(1989). Social Mobility in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 19, Class Structure in Europe New Findings from East-West Comparisons of Social Structure and Mobility, pp. 3-47
Like parent, like child? The intergenerational transmission of subjective well-being in Hungary
There is rising interest in linking research on subjective well-being and the intergenerational transmission of personality traits, attitudes, norms, values, subjective evaluations, and satisfaction. Beyond the mere study of the intergenerational transmission of well-being, there has been a growing focus on the influence of parenting practices and parenting performance on adolescents’ well-being. This analysis explores the effects of parenting on…
Graduates in the Labour Market
This article looks at the status attainment process of young Hungarian graduates, devoting special attention to the impact of social origin, defi ned as the education and occupation of parents. The authors' estimates show that graduates from high status families enjoy notable advantages in the labour market, even when type of education, fi eld of study, and a range of labour market experience factors are held constant. The greatest wage-premium f…
Self-Selection and Selection. Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Education in Hungary
By law, students in Hungary, if they wish to study at the tertiary level, must submit a formal application (every year in February) and then must take an entrance exam (in June/July). When they pass this exam they are eligible to begin their studies (in September). This procedure divides the transition to tertiary education into two stages: self-selection (applying) and selection (passing the exam). Some of the recent literature in educational mo…
Social Determination of Living Conditions in Post-Communist Societies
Living conditions have played a special role in most of the former communist societies. After World War II, living conditions were controlled by the communist equality principle, while in the following decades living conditions improved and took on the role of legitimating the communist system. In this article we investigate the inequalities in living conditions in six post-communist societies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, a…
Social Mobility in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary
(1989). Social Mobility in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 19, Class Structure in Europe New Findings from East-West Comparisons of Social Structure and Mobility, pp. 3-47
Educational transition in Hungary from the post-war period to the end of the 1980s
This paper is a replication of the analysis by Andorka and Simkus of educational transition and its socio-economic determinants, based on data from 1973. The paper uses data from three surveys conducted at the end of the 1980s which together constitute a national representative probability sample of the Hungarian adult population. After the merging of these surveys from 1986, 1988, and 1989, the sample consisted of 11,999 respondents, born betwee…
Sociological and Historical Aspects of Entry into Marriage
This study analyses the timing of first entry into marriage of Hungarian men and women born between 1916 and 1967. Marriages take place at a considerably earlier age than the West European average, and at the same time show significant differences between cohorts. In the course of the analysis we consider the social and economic circumstances which affect the timing of entry into marriage, and we connect the variables of men and women's education…
Attitudes Toward Inequality
National survey data from Hungary and eight capitalist countries in 1987 demonstrate that at that time Hungarian citizens were more egalitarian in their attitudes than citizens in capitalist countries. Within Hungary, the most significant class differences in such attitudes were between higher nonmanual employees and the remainder of the population. Temporal comparisons show no changes in such attitudes in Hungary between 1987 and 1992. Cross-nat…
Social Determination of Living Conditions in Post-Communist Societies
Living conditions have played a special role in most of the former communist societies. After World War II, living conditions were controlled by the communist equality principle, while in the following decades living conditions improved and took on the role of legitimating the communist system. In this article we investigate the inequalities in living conditions in six post-communist societies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, a…
More Speculations, Fewer Facts on East-Central Europe
Who are the Entrepreneurs and Where Do They Come From? Transition to Self-employment Before, Under and After Communism in Hungary
(2000). Who are the Entrepreneurs and Where Do They Come From? Transition to Self-employment Before, Under and After Communism in Hungary. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 147-171
Changes in status attainment in Hungary between 1910 and 1989
This article addresses the effects of economic and political change on social mobility in Hungary between 1910 and 1989 by investigating whether the effects of family background on schooling and the effects of family background and schooling on first occupation vary between periods in Hungary's twentieth-century history. For this purpose, we distinguish five periods: the long-lasting Depression (1910 to 1933), the period around the Second World W…
Self-Selection and Selection. Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Education in Hungary
By law, students in Hungary, if they wish to study at the tertiary level, must submit a formal application (every year in February) and then must take an entrance exam (in June/July). When they pass this exam they are eligible to begin their studies (in September). This procedure divides the transition to tertiary education into two stages: self-selection (applying) and selection (passing the exam). Some of the recent literature in educational mo…
Union Disruption in Hungary
This article examines the impact of cultural background, human capital, and labor force participation on union disruption. To study these relationships, retrospective data are examined on the marital history of Hungarian residents taken from a national probability sample in 1992. The discrete time event history approach.is used to show the effects of different predictors on the odds of union disruption. Strong evidence was found for the positive …
Changes in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Hungary, 1973–2000
Investigates temporal changes in Hungarian mobility patterns. Large-scale data sets of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, collected between 1973 and 2000 are used for this purpose. In addition to descriptive statistics, log-linear and log-multiplicative models are fitted to the data in order to investigate trends of temporal changes. Descriptive results indicate that the restructuring of the class distribution slowed down in the 1980s in c…
Has educational sector any impact on school effectiveness in Hungary
The aim of the paper is to test whether the pupils of religious gymnasiums in Hungary have higher grades and a better opportunity to enter vocational college or university than comparable pupils of public gymnasiums have. For the first time the effectiveness of public and religious schools is compared in one of the former communist societies. Data are from a self-administered survey among 4th grade secondary school students in spring of 1998. Our…
Stratification in Transition Economies
Although one could argue that all economies are in transition, permanently, from one state to another, this entry will focus on former socialist societies, which have undergone a post‐communist transition both in a political and a socioeconomic sense. Accordingly, economies that experienced a transition to democracy but not to a market economy (e.g., countries in South America) are not considered. Thus, this entry provides information on developm…
Graduates in the Labour Market
This article looks at the status attainment process of young Hungarian graduates, devoting special attention to the impact of social origin, defi ned as the education and occupation of parents. The authors' estimates show that graduates from high status families enjoy notable advantages in the labour market, even when type of education, fi eld of study, and a range of labour market experience factors are held constant. The greatest wage-premium f…
Stratification in Transition Economies
This entry discusses the drivers of social stratification in the former communist “transition economies.” These societies are defined by their move from an autocratic/totalitarian political system to a parliamentary/multiparty democracy and from a planned to a market economy. Theoretically, this realignment involves social devices that affect social inequality. Practically, continuity and discontinuity with the communist past are important when c…
Mapping the Post-communist Class Structure
In this article, we define a schema for the class structure of Hungary, in which we consider a case for an Eastern-European capitalist system emerging from post-communist societies. Our schema is based on the findings of the Hungarian Class Survey, 2014. Using six measures of Bourdieusian economic, cultural, and social capital and applying the methodology of latent class analysis (LCA), we have constructed a model of eight LCA-based classes: uppe…
Individual and institutional influences on EU labour market returns to education
This paper explores cross-national variations in the impact of education on labour market outcomes using the risk of unemployment and occupational status as the key dependent variables. The study applies a comparative perspective on eight EU countries (three from CEE), representing different relationships between the education system and the labour market with various degrees of inequality, welfare provisions and labour market flexibility. A temp…
Like parent, like child? The intergenerational transmission of subjective well-being in Hungary
There is rising interest in linking research on subjective well-being and the intergenerational transmission of personality traits, attitudes, norms, values, subjective evaluations, and satisfaction. Beyond the mere study of the intergenerational transmission of well-being, there has been a growing focus on the influence of parenting practices and parenting performance on adolescents’ well-being. This analysis explores the effects of parenting on…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Communism (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Demography (6 works)