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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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1993. -- Geographical Labour Mobility ; Commuting ; Regional Economic Activity …
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accelerated since then. Working abroad - including commuting between countries - is more frequent in the group of men and in the …
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accelerated since then. Working abroad - including commuting between countries - is more frequent in the group of men and in the …
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Built upon data from 11 subsequent waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the National Labour Center in Hungary from 1992 to 2003, the paper examines, with the use of elementary statistical tools, whether or not earnings fluctuations differed in size among groups of employees with different...
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Since 2006, the law has changed in a way that the expected wage of the employers has to be at least the double of the minimum wage. The employers who pay less than this amount to their employees are more likely to be audited by the tax authority. According to my hypothesis this change has...
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The share of female workers is significantly higher i the public than the private sector. This could be due to several reasons: different preferences towards job characteristics, or perhaps to lower discrimination against women in the public sector due to strict wage grids and hiring and...
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We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
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This paper employs large-scale individual-level panel data-set to determine the changes in the probability of migration … Austrian and German temporary employment limits, the hazard of doctors' migration increased. Results also show that in Hungary …, in addition to migration, doctors' attrition is also a severe problem. Exits from physicians' and dentists' pool by …
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Similarities of the applied technology and human resources make learning between industries easier and spillover effects stronger. For this reason, economic growth of countries and regions is largely dependent on the relatedness structure between their industries, which affects the appearance...
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