The framework for fiscal policy coordination in EMU has been in effect for three years. The experience gained shows that the rule-based approach provides in principle a feasible solution for policy coordination among a large number of heterogeneous countries whose joint interest is to safeguard...

This paper presents new evidence on the role of segregation into firms, occupations within a firm and stratification into professional categories within firm-occupations in explaining the gender wage gap. I use a generalized earnings model that allows observed and unobserved group...

The study compares the socio-economic situation of two Central-European countries Slovenia and Hungary in the light of the future EU-membership. To compare the two countries is very reasonable because the level of development is more or less the same, though Slovenia precedes Hungary in some...