Research staff

Balogh, Anikó researcher
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Anikó Bernát, researcher
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Blanka Páthy-Dencső, researcher
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Márton Medgyesi
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Tamás Keller
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Bori Simonovits, researcher
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TÁRKI Social Research Inc. is an independent, employee-owned research organisation that specialises in policy research in the fields of social policy and the social consequences of economic policies. This includes related data-collection, archiving and statistical activities. We recently increased our involvement in the areas of strategic market research and health policy analysis. In addition, we regularly contribute to basic research, in the areas of social stratification and inequality, and to the methodology of empirical social research.

Board of Directors

Tamás Kolosi, founder and president of TÁRKI
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Tamás Rudas, academic director of TÁRKI
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István György Tóth, C.E.O. of TÁRKI
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Senior Staff

Zoltán Fábián, director of Data Archive and IT
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András Gábos, senior researcher
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Róbert Iván Gál, senior researcher
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Péter Róbert, senior researcher
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Matild Sági, senior researcher
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Endre Sik, senior researcher
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Péter Szivós, managing director
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István György Tóth - CEO of TÁRKI

István György Tóth (toth_at_tarki.hu), PhD in Sociology, joined TÁRKI in 1994 and acts as director since 1995. He participated and/or directed various projects on Hungarian and European income distribution and social policies. He has been a consultant to various international organisations, edited and co-edited over fifteen books including the bi-annual Hungarian Social Report series since 1998, and editor of the TARKI European Social Reports. He is author of the book Income Distribution: From the Systemic Change to the Joining of the European Union (in Hungarian). Awarded by the Hungarian Sociological Association (Erdei Award, 1997) and by the President of the Hungarian Republic (Golden Grade, Merit Cross, 2003).

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Key references (research projects directed and co-directed):

• European Social Observatory on Social inclusion and income distribution (an Univ. Of Essex-Applica-Eurocentre (Vienna)-Tarki project for DG Empl of the EU)
• Study on child poverty, for DG EMPL of the EU
• The social impact of development policies (2005)
• Modelling social developments until 2020 in Hungary (2004)
•  Tárki Household Monitor (1998-, yearly)
• "The State and Its Citizens. 1996, 1997, 2007 (with László Csontos and János Kornai, 1996, 1999)
• Social Policy Strategy Paper for the Hungarian Government (1997)
• Hungarian Household Panel (1991-1997)

Selected publications

• Ward, Terry . Lelkes Orsolya . Sutherland, Holly . Tóth István György (eds.): European inequalities. Social inclusion and income distribution in the European Union. Budapest, Tárki, 2009, 214 p.
• Tóth, I. G. 2008: The demand for redistribution. A test on Hungarian data SociologickýCasopis/Czech Sociological Review, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 6: 491.509
• Jövedelemeloszlás. A gazdasági rendszerváltástól az uniós csatlakozásig. (Income distribution. From the systemic change to the joining of the EU, in Hungarian) Andorka Rudolf Társadalomtudományi Társaság- Századvég Kiadó. Budapest, 2005. 334 p.
• (ed.): Social Report series, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2004. Budapest, TÁRKI, (co-editors: Tamás Kolosi, György Vukovich)
• (ed.): Changing roles. Report on the situation of women and men in Hungary, 2005 Budapest, TÁRKI  2005, 260 p. (co-editors: Ildikó Nagy, Marietta Pongrácz)
• (ed.): A jóléti állam politikai gazdaságtana (The political economy of the welfare state, in Hungarian) Budapest, Osiris - Láthatatlan Kollégium, 1999 (co-editor: Iván Csaba)
• Tóth, I. G. 2008 :The reach of transition in Hungary: assessing the effects of economic transition on income distribution, 1987-2001 in Squire, Lyn and Fanelli, Jose Maria ed, 2008 : Economic Reform in Developing countries: Reach, Range and Reason. Edward Elgar Publishing, GDN Series
• Jövedelemegyenlõtlenségek: tényleg növekszenek, vagy csak úgy látjuk? (Income inequalities, in Hungarian) Közgazdasági Szemle, L. évf. (2003) 3. sz. 209–234. p.
• Child poverty and family transfers in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 11 (2001) no. 4. pp. 324-341. (with Michael F. Förster)
• Double or quits: should money found be risked? Review of Sociology, 2000 (special issue) pp. 73-95 (with Zoltán Szántó)
• Tax awareness and the reform of the welfare state. Hungarian Survey Results. Economics of Transition, vol. 6 (1998) no. 2. pp. 287-312. (with László Csontos and János Kornai)
• Poverty alleviation: social assistance and family benefits. In: Bokros, Lajos – Dethier, Jean-Jacques: Public Finance Reform During the Transition. The experience of Hungary. Washington, The World Bank, 1998, pp. 287-316. (with Sándor Sipos)
• Poverty, inequalities and social policies in the Visegrad countries. Economics of Transition, vol. 5 (1997) no. 2.  pp. 505-510. (with Michael F. Förster)
• Is Hungary really the least unequal? (A Discussion of Data on Income Inequalities and Poverty in Central and East European Countries). Journal of Russian and East European Finance and Trade, vol. 33 (1997) no. 6. pp. 67-94. (with Rudolf Andorka and Zsuzsa Ferge)
• The role of welfare programmes in alleviating poverty. International Review of Comparative Public Policy, vol. 7 (1997) pp. 125-145.
• Evaluating Hungarian Incomes Inequalities. The role of labor markets and social policies. Acta Oeconomica, vol. 48. (1997) no. 3-4. pp. 415-445.
• The Hungarian Household Panel: aims and methods. Innovation, vol 8. (1995) no. 1. pp 106-122.
• A jóléti rendszer az átmenet idõszakában (The welfare system in the period of transition, in Hungarian)  Közgazdasági Szemle 1994 április pp. 313-340
• A társadalmi (elosztási) igazságosság problémája. (The problem of social (distributive)Justice, in Hungarian) Szociológiai Szemle, 1. évf. (1991) 1. sz. 151-172. p.