Two faces of peripherality: labour markets, poverty, and population dynamics in Hungary and Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080204.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080204.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15196/RS080204" target="_blank" >10.15196/RS080204</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Two faces of peripherality: labour markets, poverty, and population dynamics in Hungary and Czechia

Original language description

This study investigates socioeconomic peripherality in Hungary and Czechia. Despite the current attention devoted to peripheries in post-communist societies, the authors argue that there is a lack of data-driven international comparisons of the socio-spatial outcomes ofperipheralisation processes. In the study, the situations in Hungary and Czechia are compared to assess the validity of peripheralisation as a mutually reinforcing economic, social and demographic decline specifically affecting rural areas. First, the concentration of social problems such as unemployment and poverty is examined in economically weak rural areas. Second, the role of transport accessibility and remoteness is analysed. Third, the links between socioeconomic peripheralisation and population development are explored. The results indicate basic structural similarities in the development of peripherality in Czechia and Hungary, however, the Hungarian case corresponds much more than the Czech case to the concept of peripheralisation defined as interrelated processes of economic problems, the accumulation of poverty and social exclu-sion, and population shrinkage that especially affect remote rural localities. The authors conclude by discussing the role of historically shaped settlement structures, current population compositions, and overall development at the country level.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GC18-05704J" target="_blank" >GC18-05704J: Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Regional Statistics

ISSN

2063-9538

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

19-45

UT code for WoS article

000462821500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85065132927