Jana Vobecká
InfoEducation
- PhD in Demography and Economics jointly at Charles University in Prague and Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, with distinction summa cum laude, awarded Prize Vouters for the best thesis in Economics of the Université de Bourgogne (2010)
- M.A. in Demography at Charles University in Prague (2004)
- B.A. in Demography and Sociology at Charles University in Prague (2003)
Professional Career
- Junior Scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2011)
- Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague (since 2004)
- Junior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at Collegium Budapest (in 2011)
- Doctoral research fellow at French National Institute for Agricultural Research, UMR INRA-AgroSup Dijon (several times 2005-2009)
- Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (in 2004)
Research Interests
- International migration
- Internal residential migration and its determinants
- Societal transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
- Socio-spatial inequalities within and between countries
- Historical demography
Selected Publications
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Vobecká, J. 2013. Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between Enlightenment and Shoah. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press, 220 pp. more
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Vobecká, J., Piguet, V. 2012. “Fertility, natural growth and migration in the Czech Republic: an urban-suburban-rural gradient analysis of long-term trends and recent reversals”. Population, Space and Place 18 (3): 225-240.
more. - Vobecká, J. 2010. “Kam se Češi stěhují? Sociální a demografické charakteristiky residenční migrace” [“Where do Czechs Move? Social and Demographic Characteristics of Residential Migration”]. Demografie52 (4): 117-125 (on CD).
- Vobecká, J. 2009. "Czech Rural Development Policies for Human Resources, post-2004: A Story of Muddled Definitions Preventing Strategic Visions?" Central European Journal of Public Policy, 3 (1): 44-64.
- Kostelecký, T., Vobecká, J. 2009. "Housing Affordability in Czech Regions and Demographic Behaviour – Does Housing Affordability Impact Fertility?" Czech Sociological Review 45 (6): 1191-1214.