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The paper analyses how the municipality-level unemployment rates of 1993 and their changes in 1993-2001 were affected by the availability of urban labour markets in Hungary. The year 1941 share of the Jewish population is used as an instrument for availability, in order to mitigate endogeneity,...
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Educational accountability is a timely topic in Hungary, because the law of LXXI/2006 has practically introduced educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or 10th grade. These report cards publicize information...
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The starting point of this paper is a widely shared fundamental preference according to which Hungary should follow a fast, sustainable development path and catch up with the developed world in the foreseeable future. Questions raised in this paper are related to the instrumental preferences....
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
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field of study Specialization in teaching, by contrast, decreases not only earnings but employment probability as well. As … employment probability or on earnings but none on both. From among the most prestigious institutions, only Budapest University of …
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In the employment increase of 12 million of the European Union the number of part time employees accounted for nearly 6 … million between 2000 and 2006. A great number of countries try to support the distribution of part-time employment in order to … raise or maintain the level of employment and to organise the work and working time more efficiently and intensively …
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Thanks to a joint effort of the Central Statistical Office (KSH) and the National Pension Insurance Directorate (ONYF) a special survey conducted in January-March 2008 provided information - for the first time - on the total accrual years of the non-pensioner population of Hungary. The data base...
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Using firm-level and individual panel data from 2008-2009, the paper looks at how Hungarian firms combined employment … adjustment fell entirely on employment. Variations in the changes of employment are studied using firm-level longitudinal data …
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-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 wages of the young on the job-level. Results indicate that the crowding out … effect is realized through employment and wages as well, but is limited: it appears only in the case of only the youngest and …
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