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The recent book by Iván Szelényi, advisor and Board member of Tarki Social Research Institute is now awailable in paperback and in eBook format

The 2019 edition (the first in English since 2004, the year of Hungary's accession to the EU) of the bi-annual Hungarian Social Report series provides a cross section overview of various aspects of the current Hungarian society, and it also presents time series analyses of societal changes in the three historic decades of the post-communist Hungary. The book pays particular attention on social structure and mobility, health status, education and housing conditions as well as on attitudes and political preferences. The topics are presented in an international context by comparing data from Hungary and other EU Member States. The broad coverage in its 19 chapters, authored by major Hungarian experts of their fields makes the book an unbeatable source for all those wishing to understand the contemporary Hungarian society.

Published by Oxford University Press, the authors of the new book (edited by Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills), shed new light on recent poverty trends in the European Union and the corresponding responses by European welfare states. They analyze the effect of social and fiscal policies before, during, and after the recent economic crisis and study the impact of alternative policy packages on poverty and inequality. Tarki staff contributed to Chapter 1 on reference budgets and Chapter 2 on employment and poverty dynamics before, during, and after the crisis in Europe.

For more on the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/decent-incomes-for-all-9780190849696?cc=hu&lang=en&#

The book of Iván Szelényi (Tárki board member, Yale and NYU Emeritus Professor), co-authored with Péter Mihályi (Professor at CEU and Corvinus University), published by Palgrave Macmillan, provides a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth. It focuses on the top earning 20% of society (rather than the top 1 or 0.1%), addresses the role of rent in issues such as class reproduction, wealth, sources of social instability and inequality, and provides a “post-classical” narrative of political economy.

To download the pdf version of the book, plese click here.

Commissioned by Eurofound, the project aimed to analyze trends of trust in national and EU institutions. The final report of the research, titled Societal change and trust in institutions is written by Zsolt Boda, Márton Medgyesi, Nicole Fondeville and Erhan Özdemir. It focuses on patterns of change since the turn of this century, and possible explanations for these patterns at national and EU level. The report also seeks to identify the societal groups for whom trust has declined the most, paying particular attention to the relationship between confidence in national institutions and in the EU. Finally, it examines the implications for policy of changes in trust.

FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable

The webinar will start with a short introduction on FAIR data, its status and use within the scientific community. The first part will consist of a presentation of the FAIR data checklist for researchers. This checklist is designed to support researchers with little experience in depositing and sharing their data digitally. The demonstration of the checklist during the webinar will show how the researcher is guided through questions that help assess the degree to which her or his data is deposited in a FAIR way.

A free webinar for anyone interested in data for research on poverty. Hosted by the CESSDA training group, this one-hour webinar will explore data available for researching poverty and its impact. The webinar will include three presentations with time for questions. 

With Eurostat estimating that in 2015, 119 million people, or 23.8% of the EU population, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, poverty remains an important research topic in the context of Europe. Hosted by the CESSDA training group, this one-hour webinar will explore data available for researching poverty and its impact. The webinar will include three presentations with time for questions. 

TÁRKI Data Archive participated in the CESSDA-SaW: Strengthening and widening the European infrastructure for social science data archives project consortium, funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union. After the establishment of CESSDA ERIC, the aim of this project was to achieve full European coverage, to strengthen the network and to ensure sustainability of its data for the widened network. The primary ambition was to establish the conditions for, and initiate the movement towards, a seamless social science data archive service for the whole of the European Research Area (ERA).
The project began in September, 2015 and lasted until the end of 2017. Click here to read the results of the project.