The work offers the methodology for measuring, monitoring and analyzing the main synthetic categories of quality of life on a given territory (country, region, municipal district). The work shows how the methodology was implemented to handle the data gathered in the Samara region and its...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate critically the validity of rival theorisations of the hidden economy that variously read this sphere as a leftover from a previous era, a by-product of a new emergent form of capitalism, a complement to formal employment or an alternative to the formal...

In 2007 Russian voters elected representatives to the State Duma under new electoral procedures that President V. Putin had instituted. A presidential election followed in 2008 leading to Putin’s new role as Prime Minister. To many observers, the reforms and the election campaigns resulted in...

This paper presents the results of research into the values and norms which are adhered to a Russian tour operator, the employees’ personal business values, and the level of their adherence to company regulations. The empirical data of this research includes the company’s internal documents,...

"This paper examines wage differentials between permanent/non-permanent and full-time/part-time employees. The analysis is based on the representative Household Survey of Welfare dataset, collected by Rosstat and the World Bank in 2003. The results show that non-permanent workers suffer a loss...

"This paper examines wage differentials between permanent/non-permanent and full-time/part-time employees. The analysis is based on the representative Household Survey of Welfare dataset, collected by Rosstat and the World Bank in 2003. The results show that non-permanent workers suffer a loss...

A tanulmány egy oksági modellt mutat be arra vonatkozóan, hogyan befolyásolta a vállalkozók közé való belépést a társadalmi háttér (apa foglalkozása), az iskolai befektetések (szakképzés, akadémiai képzés) s a piaci, illetve politikai beágyazottság (munkaerőpiaci...

Hámori Balázs könyve harmadik fejezetében teszi fel a címbeli kérdést: férjhez adnám-e lányomat a homo oeconomicushoz, vagyis ahhoz a lényhez, aki csak arra van tekintettel, hogy a maga hasznát maximalizálja, s közömbös számára, hogy közben mások hogyan boldogulnak.

The present paper is an exercise to sociologically recover a story reported in a travel diary of a Western diplomat, who was passing through Moldova, at the end of the eighteenth century, where there are three characters belonging to three different cultures: a Moldovan, a Turkish and a French....