This study investigates the crowding out effect among old and young workers in the Hungarian public sector, using job-level data. The analysis improves upon analyses based on aggregate data by considering the levels of employment for various labour types and the employment opportunities and...

In the course of employment changes parallel to the changing process of the regime, youth had to face heavy problems. The early 90s were characterized by a considerable recession in economic activity and a drastic growth of unemployment, that is, in the period of 1990-1996 the share of...