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Subjective poverty line in Czech Republic
Martínková, Monika ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Křížová, Eva (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the importance of measuring subjective poverty for social work and social policy and points to its connection with the quality of life of individuals and families. The work seeks to clearly show the benefits of direct impacts, vie subjective measurement of the poverty in comparison with the measurement of objective and interdisciplinary context in sociology and social work. Through professional research, it evaluates how social work contributes to solution contemporary social problems. It shows how research on the subjective perception of the poverty can benefit in this regard. This thesis finds out how measuring subjective poverty helps determine the client's needs. The case study shows that the acceptance of an individual way of perceiving a difficult social situation by a client, so contributes to the effectiveness of assistance. The professional contributions included, among other things, point to the impact of poverty on the children's lives and illustrate the new social risks that are constantly evolving. Professional recommendation and further research are the possibilities of improving the methods of social work and their further development. Keywords Deprivation, subjective poverty line, income poverty, concepts of poverty, subjective poverty, social...
Strategy of Valorization of the Living Minimum in the Czech Republic
Kočová, Tereza ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Hynek (referee)
Valorization of the subsistence minimum is an important step for the correct adjustment of the entire social system. There is insufficient importance attached to this topic in the Czech environment. This can be confirmed by the absence of research focused on the system of valorization. The aim of this work is to propose and test alternative strategies for valorization of the subsistence minimum in the Czech Republic, which could help to outline further steps for work with this institute in order to improve the standard of living of citizens. The work focuses on testing three alternative strategies. The first proposes a minimum living standard to increase the year-onyear inflation, the second option adjusts the subsistence minimum by expenses of the 20% of the poorest households, and the third scenario recalculates the actual values by subtracting 10% for adults and adding 15% to children. I subsequently tested these scenarios in SPSS on EU-SILC data. The results show that the valorization strategy based on the inflation rate does not really affect the subsistence level and also almost does not change the shift of people above the poverty line. On the other hand, the revaluation scenario according to expenses of the poorest 20% is very effective in increasing the income of the most deprived persons....

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