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Table 5 The Relative Price Level of Household Final Consumption Expenditures
(HFCE) in the Czech Republic and in Compared Countries
Relative HFCE Price Level
EU-25 = 1.00
Czech Republic = 1.00 x
Czech Republic 0.55 1.00
Germany 1.07 1.95
Austria 1.04 1.89
Ireland 1.23 2.24
Great Britain 1.06 1.93
x rounded
Source: Eurostat: Structural Indicators, epp. eurostat.cec.eu.int.s (October 2006)
The gap of the Czech level of consumer prices is currently considerable. The price level
in foreign countries oscillates around twice that of the Czech price level.
(6) The data in the following table characterises the comparable (parity) real purchasing
power of the doctors’ average net earnings in thousands of crowns per month (i.e. financial
amounts are available to a doctor on average) in compared states.
Table 6 Comparable Real Purchasing Power of the Average Wage in the Czech Republic
and Compared Countries (thousands of CZK per month)
Net Real Wage in ‘000 CZK/Month. x Relation (Czech Republic = 1.0)
Czech Republic 27 1.0
Germany 49 1.8
Austria 58 2.2
Ireland 43 1.6
Great Britain 95 3.5
x information for the profession of “general practitioner”; in thousands of CZK rounded off; see Appendix 10 for
more details
The net wage achieved on average by general practitioners in foreign countries, with the
level of consumer prices in these countries, represents a considerably higher purchasing
power than the purchasing power of the average wage that is achieved by general
practitioners in the Czech Republic. The wage disparities roughly amount to: 60% in
Ireland, 80% in Germany, 120% in Austria, 250% in Great Britain and they create a
generally strong motivation for doctors to migrate to countries that are the subject of
the evaluation. 17,18 A considerable disparity of the real level of average net wages in Great
Britain follows from both the generally higher level of the British currency’s purchasing
power as well as from the higher income position of doctors in the domestic income hierarchy
of professions. This indicates that migration to the United Kingdom is the most advantageous
for doctors in terms of earnings.
A more detailed assessment shows that a similar income interval as in the average between
the net wage’s real purchasing power exists while evaluating the income range (“minimax”)
and also the wage offers of foreign employers. The domestic wage differentiation and offers
indicate that there is a greater intensity of wage motivation for work migration in areas of
17 In the last survey (RILSA, 2006) doctors also gave Great Britain, Ireland and Germany as the most frequent
countries of their migration interest.
18 In the cited survey about 43% of the doctors state that their income abroad would exceed their income in the
Czech Republic by roughly 2x and 40% believe in a triple increase.
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