Marton Medgyesi

• PhD in Sociology
• TÁRKI Social Research Institute

A környezettel és környezetvédelemmel kapcsolatos lakossági vélemények vizsgálatát lehetővé tevő egyik legszélesebb körű kutatás az International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), amelynek segítségével a vélemények időbeli változásáról és azok országok közötti eltéréseiről is képet kaphatunk. Az ISSP keretében először 1993-ban bonyolítottak le ebben...

The post-2008 economic recovery period has seen varying degrees of improvement in the well-being of young individuals across different countries, regions, and cities of the EU. This study contributes to the literature on the geography of well-being by examining the impact of urban economic contexts on the subjective well-being of youth in Europe, a...

A könyv a magyarországi gyermekszegénység elleni járási programok tapasztalatait, eredményeit és kihívásait mutatja be a 2016 és 2023 közötti időszakban.

What are the intergenerational resource transfer contributions of parents and non-parents in Europe? Using National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts for 12 countries around 2010, we go beyond public transfers (net taxes) to also value two statistically much less visible transfers in the family realm: of market goods and of unpa...

The Hungarian Economic Association organised a conference in memory of Gábor Kézdi on 20 December 2021. Gábor Kézdi, one of the most influential Hungarian economists of his generation, died last year at the age of 50. His career as a researcher and teacher was an inspiration and an example not only to the economics profession but also to the wider...

Social workers may play an important role in the implementation of welfare policies targeted at the poor. Their norms, beliefs, and attitudes form local anti-poverty programmes and affect discretionary practices with their clients. Despite this, we know little about how social workers’ exposure to poverty shapes their attitudes towards poverty and...

The chapter summarizes recent trends in inequality in the Emerging European Economies (EEE) since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009 and analyses potential effects of the Covid crisis on income distribution in these societies. Inequality paths diverged between 2009 and 2019: while disposable income inequality markedly increased in Bulgar...

Social scientists identify two core functions of modern welfare states as redistribution across (a) socio-economic status groups (Robin Hood) and (b) ‘the lifecycle’ (the piggy bank). But what is the relative importance of these functions? The answer has been elusive, as the piggy bank is metaphorical. The intra-personal time-travel of resources it...

The book is the Europe volume in an international series on income, wealth, consumption, well-being, and inequality. It focuses on the European Union (EU) and its member countries and other European countries that are in close association with it. The book provides an overview of economic and social trends in the countries and in country groupings....

This chapter looks at trends in 10 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, exploring both convergence between these countries and the centre of the European Union on the one hand and comparative inequality trends within some of the CEE economies on the other. Time trends are presented from the beginning of the 1990s until the most recent avai...

In line with the previous research, we confirm that welfare programmes in Hungary are poorly targeted in terms of socio‐economic status (SES). However, by adding age to our models, we demonstrate that even if the status is irrelevant in explaining access to social benefits and services, age is not. Applying simple regression techniques, we compare...

This study exploits the EU-SILC 2010 special module on intra-household sharing of resources to shed light on practices of income sharing in households were young adults live together with their parents. The paper is novel in two respects. First quantitative comparative evidence on how young adults in coresidence with parents participate in househol...

As data from the European Quality of Life Surveys and Eurobarometer show, the sharp decline in trust in institutions was a temporary phenomenon during the recession. In some Member States, trust in the EU declined more during this period than trust in national governments, but trust in the EU has generally remained higher than trust in national gov...

Young people were hit particularly hard by the recession which struck the European Union (EU) economies during 2008–2009 and have continued to experience problems during the prolonged period of economic stagnation which has followed. Although the impact of the recent economic crisis on young people appears to have been considerable, it has not been...

The European Union (EU) is living tremendous challenges generated by the high level of social disparities within and between national populations. European institutions have a decisive role in changing this situation and improving social protection policies. Chapters of this book demonstrate that despite certain successes of the EU’s tools in the s...

This edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries. The work critically explores both vertical inequality, existing between those with high incomes and low incomes, and horizontal inequality, existing between groups according to nationality, age, ethnicity, and gender. Reducing Inequalities has be...

There seems to be a general consent in the expert community that Hungarian social policy provides poorly targeted benefits and services that are prone to Matthew-effects. Our results confirm this observation but we also find that the data offer an alternative interpretation of what the Hungarian welfare state is actually doing. Instead of supportin...

The purpose of this Research Note is to examine the extent to which it is possible from the data in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and in the European Labour Force Survey (LFS) to construct a composite index of well-being at regional level in the EU. The aim is to complement the European Pillar of Social Rig...

Idősödő népességű országokban különösen fontos a családi szolidaritás mintázatainak vizsgálata és mozgatóinak megértése. Ebben a tanulmányban a felnőtt gyermekek által idős szüleiknek nyújtott nem anyagi segítséget (a gondozásban, a háztartási munkákban) vizsgálom Magyarországon, ahol az állam részvétele az idősek gondozásában viszonylag kismértékű...

Improving the availability and affordability of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services is high up on the EU policy agenda as affordable childcare supports parents’ access to the labour market, addresses child poverty and contributes to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. In this research note, the objective is to pro...

This paper identifies types of tax evaders and explores their divergent motivations for evading taxation. The data derives from two large-scale population surveys conducted in 2008 and 2012 in Hungary. Cluster analysis captured two distinct types of tax evaders: 1) poverty escape-type and 2) better-off fake entrepreneurship-type, partially confirmi...

This paper investigates how receipt of welfare benefits differs between natives and mobile EU citizens in EU countries, on the basis of data from EU-SILC 2011. The analysis focuses on differences in receipt of non-contributory benefits (such as family benefits, housing benefits, poverty relief, etc.), although differences in the receipt of unemploy...

This paper identifies types of tax evaders and explores their divergent motivations for evading taxation. The data derives from two large-scale population surveys conducted in 2008 and 2012 in Hungary. Cluster analysis captured two distinct types of tax evaders: 1) poverty escape-type and 2) better-off fake entrepreneurship-type, partially confirmi...

The paper, based on recent EU-SILC data, investigates the patterns of income inequalities in “old” and “new” EU member states. We describe income inequality within countries as well as income differences between states and test our results using different methodological assumptions. Our results show that the group of new member states was no less h...

The paper, based on recent EU-SILC data, investigates the patterns of income inequalities in “old” and “new” EU member states. We describe income inequality within countries as well as income differences between states and test our results using different methodological assumptions. Our results show that the group of new member states was no less h...

Values and norms regarding income inequalities are important in the determination of both primary (pre-tax) incomes and the extent of redistribution through taxes and transfers. This research note, based on the 2009 Special Eurobarometer on poverty and social exclusion, first presents a country-level analysis of the relationship between measured le...

Az OTKA által támogatott T 46648 számú kutatás a munkával összefüggő lakossági attitűdök vizsgálatára irányult. A kutatás a nemzetközi ISSP program részeként két szinten folyt: 1) a munkával kapcsolatos attitűdök időbeli változása Magyarországon; 2) a munkával kapcsolatos hazai attitűdök nemzetközi összevetése más országok adataival. Az időbeli vál...

This chapter seeks to examine in more detail the risk of poverty and inequalities in the distribution of income in different parts of the EU and to consider the fac tors that underlie the fi ndings presented in the previous chapter. It is divided into two parts. The fi rst part considers the variation in the risk of poverty among people of differen...

This chapter provides an analysis of inequalities and poverty in relation to economic growth. The classical study of Kuznets on the effect of growth on inequality states that, at the initial stages of the development process, inequality rises with growth; then, at later stages, inequality starts to decrease with further expansion of the economy. Re...

The first part of this chapter presents comparative estimates of income inequality based on data from the EU-SILC (‘Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions’). The aim of the chapter is to describe inter-country differences in income inequality across the European Union. The second part of the chapter (Section 3.4) investigates inter-co...

A kutatás legfontosabb eredményei az International Social Survey Programme 2007-es Sport és Szabadidő, valamint 2008-as Vallás modulok adatfelvételeinek lebonyolítása volt. Megtörtént a kutatások magyar nyelvű adatfájljának archiválása a Tárki Adatbankba és az angol nyelvű system file elkészítése és archiválása a Zentralarchiv adatbankjába. Az ISSP...

The European Commission awarded a contract in November 2005 to a consortium composed of the TARKI Social Research Institute (Hungary), CASE, Center for Social and Economic Research (Poland) and CEPS to analyse the socio-economic developments and the process of structural reforms in what were then four candidate countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania...

Using the method of generational accounting, this study describes the longterm imbalance that arises from the existing structure of revenues and expenditures in Hungary’s budget. In the first step, we break the population down into generations (cohorts, age groups), and calculate the tax and contribution payments of average individuals across the v...

The analysis approaches satisfaction with work as affected by demographic and social characteristics as well as by labor market and labor organization position. Furthermore the impact of expectations to and evaluation of the job is also considered. The international variation in the explanatory mechanisms of satisfaction with work is analyzed by co...

Ebben a tanulmányban az idısek jövedelmi helyzetének változását vizsgáljuk a kilencvenes évek folyamán. Különösképpen a szegénység alakulásának a vizsgálatára helyezzük a hangsúlyt, elsısorban a jövedelmi helyzet alapján azonosítva a szegényeket, de vizsgáljuk a társadalmi helyzetre vonatkozó "szubjektív" véleményeket is. Legtöbbször az aktív korúa...

A munkaattitűdök kutatásának fontossága abban rejlik, hogy az attitűdök szoros ösz-szefüggést mutatnak a megfigyelhető viselkedéssel (Hakim 1991; Clark 1997). Em-pirikus kutatások bizonyítják, hogy a munkájával elégedetlen dolgozó gyakrabban cserél állást, többet hiányzik, illetve idejének nagyobb részét tölti munkán kívüli tevékenységgel és több k...

A piacgazdaság kiépülésének egyik következményeként a kilencvenes években Magyarországon jelentõsen megnövekedtek a kereseti különbségek. Ez a folyamat felveti a kérdést, hogy a kereseti egyenlõtlenségekkel kapcsolatos vélemények, attitûdök hogyan változtak ugyanebben az idõszakban. A dolgozat 1987-bõl és 1992-bõl származó reprezentatív mintákon el...