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Tax Reform, Trade Liberalisation and Industrial Restructuring in Hungary

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The two central economic problems facing Hungary are its large foreign debt and its relatively poor rate of growth over … the 1980s. The paper examines some of the reform issues facing Hungary, starting with the tax reforms of 1988 and 1989 …

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Taxes and Subsidies in the Transforming Hungarian Economy

Revesz, Tamas; Zalai, Erno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

accords with economic principles. The authors explain how the `state' should be defined in Hungary, discuss the main forms of … research exercise!), further reform of the tax and public expenditure system, and extensive training of Hungary's public …

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An Analysis of the Hungarian Tax Reform

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

The feasibility of systemic reforms may depend on their distributional consequences. The shift to a market economy can be expected to increase wage differentials and unemployment, which will have an adverse effect on income distribution. Income tax reform and the change in the system of consumer...

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Are the Costs of Cleaning Up Eastern Europe Exaggerated? Economic Reform and the Environment

Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert resources that would otherwise be available for industrial modernization. In fact, apart from a number of severely damaged areas, the general level of exposure to major...

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Some Political Aspects of Unemployment

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We study a number of mechanisms through which an economy can be stuck at a high unemployment equilibrium because a poor labour market is associated with support for poor policy. These mechanisms are consistent with the relative scarcity of measures that have been undertaken to cure unemployment....

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The Competitiveness of Hungarian Industry

Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon; Michael, Thomas; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Using an RAS update to 1990 of an 86-sector input-output table for Hungary in 1986, and corresponding data on world … sectors are obtained under a variety of conditions. Hungary's trade relationships and constraints on trade make it uncertain … Hungary and the EC on Hungary's competitiveness, finding that some sectors will be strengthened, e.g. forestry, agriculture …

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Factors and Effects of Trade Reorientation in Hungary

Halpern, László - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...

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After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998)

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...

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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary involving random assignment of benefit claimants …

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The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96

Newbery, David M G; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from …

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