TARKI Social Research Institute

TARKI Social Research Institute is an independent research centre located in Budapest, Hungary.[1] TARKI conducts applied socioeconomic research in social stratification, labour markets, income distribution, intergenerational transfers, tax-benefit systems, consumption and lifestyle patterns and attitudes. Senior staff at TARKI all have PhD’s and many hold professorial appointments at major universities.[2]

Organisation

TARKI Social Research Institute is a member of the TARKI Group. Other members of the TARKI Group are:

TARKI Joint Research Centre operates the Hungarian national social science data archive [4] and is a member of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). TARKI also conducts regular polls in Hungary.

History

1985 TARKI Social Science Data Archive founded [5]
1991 New polling network founded
1998 Institute becomes a private, for-profit, staff-owned shareholding company
2007 KOPINT-TARKI Institute for Economic Research Ltd. founded
2007 TARKI-TUDOK Centre for Knowledge Management and Educational Research Inc.

Profile

TARKI’s research profile has changed since it was first established.

European Research Projects

The research will develop new tools for monitoring poverty, social policy and social innovative practices. For the first time reference budgets will be computed for several member states using a single theoretical framework and a consistent methodology.
The project's main objective is to identify challenges to economic, social and territorial cohesion as well as regional development potentials in different borderlands at the EU’s external frontiers.
The Concordia Discors Project is investigating intergroup relations at neighbourhood level, with the aim of producing a deep, strongly empirical-based and directly policy-relevant understanding of integration and conflict processes in the neighbourhoods of European cities.
A major European-wide study on the impact of growing inequalities. The project is coordinated by University of Amsterdam.
A consortium led by Applica, Brussels (having TÁRKI, Essex University and Eurocentre, Vienna) produces annual monitoring reports on trends of income distribution and social inclusion in Europe.
The project proceeds in consecutive steps of collecting and analysing information and projecting future scenarios on long term care needs, use, quality assurance and system performance.
A support action with the aim of disseminating research findings of previous EU Framework Programme projects in the field of work and care.
EUROMOD is a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EU) that enables researchers and policy analysts to calculate, in a comparable manner, the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives for the population of each country and for the EU as a whole.
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 45,000 individuals aged 50 or over.
ENRI-East is an international research project dedicated to the study of socio-ethnic identities in East European countries.
The project focuses on the contribution of the education systems to the process of making lifelong learning a reality and its role as a potential agency of social integration.
A study on in-depth analysis of the determinants of child poverty, policy overview and impact analysis, identification of best indicators. The publication was supported under the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity (2007-2013) and the programme was managed by the DG Employment.
The research project explores the relationships between, structural changes labour market, demography, welfare and economic policies at the macro level and at the micro level changes in individual orientations to work and care.
The project addresses the needs of the main groups of higher education (HE) stakeholders who are interested in the employability of graduates. Based on several project reports, higher education institutions have been provided with empirically based evidence for planning their curricula, strategies and general orientations.
The overarching aim of this project is to develop an analytical framework capable of capturing the relevant aspects of micro socio economic instruments Member States apply in modelling future developments in their pension schemes and the datasets behind them, and to apply this framework in describing and comparing the national approaches.
This project aims at providing a strengthened conceptual and scientific basis for assessing the capacity of European pension systems to deliver adequate old age income maintenance in a context of low fertility and steadily increasing life expectancy.
AHEAD was a three-year research project on the future evolution of health expenditure in the enlarged European Union.
The main goal of the project was to develop a “functioning” prototype of a European graduates’ database including the CV’s of graduates from the French, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian and the Italian Universities which are part of the AlmaLaurea Consortium.

Membership in Networks

Publication series

Social Report (Társadalmi Riport): Collection of studies on social trends in Hungary. The first Social Report was published in 1990 and has been published every second year since then. It is widely reported upon in the Hungarian media.[20]

TARKI Household Monitor Report (TÁRKI Háztartás Monitor Jelentések): Analyses of data collected from the biennial cross-sectional TARKI Household Monitor survey.

Changing Values (Szerepváltozások): Presents and tracks changes in the social position of women and men in Hungary. Changing Values is commissioned by the Hungarian Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour.[21]

European Social Report: A series on European social trends.

Researchers

Name Date Current position Main fields of research
Tamás Kolosi 1985- founder and president social stratification, social structure, inequalities, value orientations
Tamás Rudas 1986- academic director multivariate statistical methods, treatment selection, marginal models for categorical data
István György Tóth 1994- director income distribution, social policies, inequalities
Péter Szivós 1997- managing director social exclusion, poverty, social policy evaluation, microsimulation
Róbert Iván Gál 1996- senior researcher generational accounting; welfare systems, redistribution within and across generations, tax incidence by age
Zoltán Fábián 1991- senior researcher social psychology, social structure and political behavior
András Gábos 2000- senior researcher fertility effects of intergenerational transfers, cost of children, work incentive effects of family policies, poverty (especially child poverty), income inequality
Endre Sík 1990- senior researcher, project manager social stratification, migration, labour market, minorities, roma
Péter Róbert 1985- senior researcher, project manager social mobility, education, lifelong learning, employment
Anikó Bernáth 2002- researcher migration, people with disabilities, minorities, roma, child poverty
Márton Medgyesi 2000- senior researcher social policy, intergenerational transfers, income inequalities
Tamás Keller 2006- researcher attitudes, values, social stratification
Bori Simonovits 2001- researcher migration, labour market, minorities
Boglárka Szalai 2011- junior researcher minorities, migrants

References

  1. ↑ Think Tanks in Central Europe: A Selective Directory, 3rd ed., Freedom House, p. 172-173, available at http://www.freedomhouse.hu/pdfdocs/11-Hungary.pdf
  2. ↑ TARKI home page
  3. ↑ KOPINT-TARKI Institute for Economic Research Ltd.
  4. ↑ Nagy, Ildikó, (Summer 2001). "TÁRKI Data Bank - The Case of Hungary", IASSIT Quarterly: 11-13. Available at www.iassistdata.org/downloads/iqvol252nagy.pdf or see web posting of same article on GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
  5. ↑ Tóth, István György (Spring 1996), "The Hungarian Social Science Data Archive and Contact in Empirical Social Research", EURODATA Newsletter No. 3, Research Archive of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, available at http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/eurodata/newsletter/no3.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.euborderregions.eu/consortium/partners
  7. ↑ http://www.epc.eu/prog_forum.php?forum_id=27&prog_id=6
  8. ↑ http://www.gini-research.org/articles/core_partner_teams
  9. ↑ http://www.socialsituation.eu/WebApp/Home.aspx
  10. ↑ http://www.ancien-longtermcare.eu/partnersinfo
  11. ↑ http://workcaresynergies.eu/social-cohesion/
  12. ↑ http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/euromod
  13. ↑ http://share-dev.mpisoc.mpg.de/
  14. ↑ http://www.enri-east.net/consortium/tarki-research-institute-inc-hungary/en/
  15. ↑ http://lll2010.tlu.ee/partners
  16. ↑ http://www.tarki.hu/en/research/childpoverty/index.html
  17. ↑ http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/research/nec/workcare/tarki.php
  18. ↑ http://www.hegesco.org/content/view/4/5/
  19. ↑ http://www.eal-net.org/en/eal-net/partners/
  20. ↑ Népszabadság, a Hungarian daily, discusses the 2008 Social Report (MTI, 10 September 2008, in Hungarian), available at http://www.nol.hu/archivum/archiv-506498
  21. ↑ The latest editions of Changing Values (Szerepváltozások), 2005 and 2009. , are available on the homepage of the Hungarian Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (in Hungarian).

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