income transfers. We concentrate on the case of Hungary. We first survey recent developments in the economic circumstances of …

part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also uncover a new fact: in both international and cross-state U.S. data, there …

rates. Further, the S&P 500 market seems to be well integrated, and the NASDAQ is generally (but not always) integrated. The …

assets traded on a given market share the same EMRS. The technique is also powerful enough to reject integration between the …

relationship between unit values and market size. We propose two possible explanations: first, firms may export different quality …

adjustments to regional shocks by education level brought about in part by Central European labour-market institutions, such as …

accords with economic principles. The authors explain how the `state' should be defined in Hungary, discuss the main forms of …One of the important neglected issues in discussions of East European transition to the market is the structure of the … research exercise!), further reform of the tax and public expenditure system, and extensive training of Hungary's public …

We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI … register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims … of UI entitlement. Hazards of exits to labour market programmes do rise just before UI expiry. The results suggest the …

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this … in Hungary we find that the male/female difference in log wages declined from 0.31 to 0.19 between 1986 and 1998 and that …

Labour market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information … jobs to the state of "joblessness". The results on job exits call into question aspects of the standard international …