Enabling educated individuals to work abroad entails a brain drain and results in educated unemployment at home. Because the prospect of migration raises the expected returns to higher education it also facilitates a "brain gain": a eveloping economy ends up with a higher fraction of educated...

Hungarian Abstract: A humanitárius problémaként induló menekültválság mára Európa-szerte biztonságpolitikai kérdéssé alakult. A migrációs válságot egy sor populista politikai hang nemcsak az egyes országok létét fenyegető, de az egész kontinenst és az Európai Unió...

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,...

A térbeli számítható általános egyensúlyi (SCGE) modellek az új gazdaságföldrajz (ÚGF) „empirikus megfelelõi”. Szemléleti-módszertani gyökereiket tehát az új gazdaságföldrajzi és a számítható általános egyensúlyi (CGE) modellekben találjuk meg. Tanulmányunkban a...

Emigration has accelerated since 2007 in Hungary. The short history of the new phenomenon called intense political and social reactions. The paper focuses on a particular segment of emigration: on labour emigration of those employed persons who are still connected to the home country and...

Emigration has accelerated since 2007 in Hungary. The short history of the new phenomenon called intense political and social reactions. The paper focuses on a particular segment of emigration: on labour emigration of those employed persons who are still connected to the home country and...

This paper employs large-scale individual-level panel data-set to determine the changes in the probability of migration and attrition of Hungarian doctors between 2003 and 2011. The study uses event history modelling, competing risk models. The results show that first after the EU accession,...