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Are inhabitants of western Europe happier that inhabitants of eastern Europe?
Čermák, Jiří ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Karpová, Eva (referee)
The aim of master thesis is finding answers to the question, if inhabitants of western Europe are happier than inhabitants of eastern Europe. I want to compare standards of living in these regions based on the indexes of living standards. Further I want find out, if the happiness is measurable. Europe during the economic crisis has shown that GDP of countries slowed down, but is this economic indicator showing happiness of nations? Does it present satisfaction and well-being of the population? Can we identify some relation or dependence between GDP and happiness of the population? What are the indicators that are able to answer this question? A substantial part of my work will be comparison of the individual indexes of living standards and I will specify, what means standard of living and what are the components. In the practical part I want to compare reality in different areas of human life, which is related to the standard of living and to compare these data between the nations in western Europe and eastern Europe.
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Činí nás žárlivost druhých šťasnými?
Svatoš, Jiří ; Stroukal, Dominik (advisor) ; Špecián, Petr (referee)
The relative income is often cited as a reason why happiness of nations does not grow in time with growing GDP. The study replicates the methodology of several different researchers from basic scatterplots, standard OLS and ordered probit models to hierarchical linear multilevel models (HLM). The results provide evidence that the happiness is actually rising with the growing GDP, although slowly and with the GDP measured in logarithm. On the contrary, the relevance of relative income to happiness is ambiguous through all the proposed models. Furthermore, the individual characteristics like marital status or employment status are proved to explain the differences in happiness much better than income. Finally it is shown that income has similar effects on different measurements of subjective well-being (health, happiness and emotional well-being).
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Influences of hedonism, utilitarianism and christianity in czeck social work
HENDRYCH, Jan
This seminary work is about czeck social work literature written by Oldřich Matoušek and other other writers who are writting about similiar themes. Moreover it is about ethical parts of social work literature. Especially about influences of hedonism, utilitarism and christianity. Those influences about definiton of good and evil. Good as the thing that is center of all three disciplines in relation to social work.
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Happiness For All Money: Analysis of the Relationship between Wealth and Happiness in the Czech Republic
Brožová, Dominika ; Šťastný, Daniel (advisor) ; Klesla, Arnošt (referee)
The aim of thesis was to find out how wealth or income level affects reported life satisfaction of inhabitants of the Czech Republic. The analysis used the latest available data Eurobarometer wave 78.1 of November 2012. Overall, three models were estimated by ordered probit method, where it was operated with relative income. Effect of income is then shown on all models statistically significant and with a positive direction. In addition to the first model money do not have a strong effect on happiness, but it is important to know how to manage money and to not face the problem of paying bills, or financial problems at all. As the most important factor of satisfaction appeared education, further positive effect has whether a person is satisfied with the functioning of democracy and trusts local and regional public officials.
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The impact of income and employer on happines in the Czech Republic
Valentová, Adela ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Brožová, Dagmar (referee)
This thesis identified the impact of income and reference income on happiness or life satisfaction. The impact of type of employer for which was identified the impact of firm size, the difference between private and public sector and the entrepreneur and the employee. For the analysis for the Czech Republic were used data from 1st, 4th and 5th wave of European Social Survey from years 2002, 2008 and 2010. The analysis found only a small positive impact of absolute income on happiness, a positive impact of reference income which suggests the possibility of "tunnel effect" which means that the positive impact of reference income can be explained as a signal of possible future prosperity. On average a higher happiness for entrepreneurs and employees in public sector was found. The significant impact of firm size on happiness was not found. The highest impact on happiness have health and living with partner. The increase in health has the same effect on happiness as tripling of income; living with partner has even bigger impact on happiness, about 3, 5 times of income.
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The Analysis of the Advantageousness of Number of Children for a State versus for a Family
Luxová, Ludmila ; Slunčík, Peter (advisor) ; Hampl, Otakar (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to point out unequal condition of multi member families in a state in comparison with childless families. The thesis tries to verify the hypothesis that to have and to bring up more children is considered to be utterly profitable and beneficial for the state whereas for the families, from the economic point of view, it is not so profitable and beneficial. The thesis compares the advantageousness of a family with more children for the state from various angles. On the other side the thesis uses methods of multicriteria decision making WSA and TOPSIS to appraise variants of different number of children depending on economic factors. The objective of these methods is to find a compromise variant, what numer of children is the most beneficial for the family. In addition, the thesis deals with non economic aspect of family and with the importance of relationships based on measuring of happiness by means of SWB -- subjective well-being. In conclusion, the thesis offers some proposals of effective family support.
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Can we buy happiness? Evidence from Slovak Republic
Šramko, Filip ; Chytilová, Helena (advisor) ; Svoboda, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis tries to verify the impact of income and income of reference group on subjectively experienced happiness. The thesis is following the findings of "tunnel" effect in the countries of former Eastern Bloc (Senik, 2008). By OLS estimation of sample from fourth wave of European Values Study I found the presence of weak positive effect of income on happiness. However we cannot conclude causal relationship from our findings. Effect of reference group income is not consistent across estimated models, but I found some possible suggestions of "tunnel" effect. I also found lower effect of absolute income for employed than for the remaining population in the sample. Estimations were also executed with life satisfaction variable confirming the propriety of distinguishing between happiness and life satisfaction concepts.
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The Economics of Happiness: Are the busier employees the happier ones?
Tesařová, Jana ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Mirvald, Michal (referee)
The thesis analyzes the relationship of the perceived happiness level and the level of work busyness of full time employees. For this purpose, a questionnaire was built which mapped happiness and busyness with considering both subjective and objective variables. 205 employees participated in the questionnaire survey. The sample showed above-average education, a high level of busyness and above-average salary (or wages). It has been shown that the work happiness level depends on the level of workload: the unbusy employees are the least happy ones. Influence of ambitions or influence of the importance of work area to the relationship of happiness level and workload level has not been confirmed.
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The impact of education on happiness in the Czech Republic
Krepčíková, Klára ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Brožová, Dagmar (referee)
This paper examines the relationship between education and happiness in Czech Republic using data from European Social Survey. By applying descriptive statistics and estimating the happiness equation, it can be found that education has both direct and indirect impact (through higher income and higher probability of getting an employment) on men's happiness. The influence was not found if we consider women. Men with higher upper secondary education are found to be less happy than men with lower secondary education or tertiary education. It can be thus concluded that these men might not be getting returns from their investment to education. Furthermore, parent's education is found to have negative impact in children's happiness. While the women's happiness is lower when the father is more educated, the men's happiness is negatively affected by mother's education. It seems that women consider their fathers and men their mothers to be a person of reference.
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Alternativní ukazatele vývoje hospodářství
Krajhanzl, Martin ; Sirůček, Pavel (advisor) ; Džbánková, Zuzana (referee)
Diplomová práce se zabývá tématem alternativních ukazatelů vývoje hospodářství, které berou v úvahu úroveň štěstí ve společnosti. Zkoumá, za jakých historických souvislostí v první polovině 20. století vznikal ukazatel HDP a na co tehdy reagoval a snaží se nastínit, co se od té doby změnilo. Cílem je odpovědět na otázky, zda má smysl měřit indexy na základě štěstí a zda již dozrála doba na rozšíření povědomí o nich.
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