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turns out to be preferred by society when ex ante income inequality is relatively low, while a majoritarian system is chosen … when income inequality is relatively high. We also obtain that consensual democracies should be expected to be ruled more … the relationship between inequality and redistribution are discussed. Historical evidence and a cross-sectional analysis …
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The study overviews the main mechanisms of public employment. It aims to understand the factors that influence what types and volume of resources settlements receive in order to increase their local employment opportunities. In order to do that we reviewed the database for the years 2011-2014...
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This paper examines characteristics for participation in active labor market policies assisting the unemployed in turning into entrepreneurs- among those who were registered unemployed for at least one day during 2014-15 in Hungary. Data shows that it is rather the disadvantaged unemployed who...
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Measuring non-cognitive skills in evaluations of education policy interventions is an increasingly important task. At the same time, choosing the adequate measures is difficult. Contrary to cognitive development, there is a shortage of reliable and valid measures of personality and behavioral...
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The National Educational Integration Network (OOIH) launched a program in 2003 that focused on the integrated education of primary school children (grades 1 through 8) in 45 schools in Hungary. The goal of the program was to compensate for the educational disadvantages of children from poor...
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This paper aims at estimating the effect of the kindergarten allowance program (a conditional cash transfer program organized by the government) introduced in Hungary in January 2009. We use institutional kindergarten data and municipality-level demographic data spanning ten years (2001 through...
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The National Educational Integration Network (OOIH) launched a program in 2003 that focused on the integrated education of primary school children (grades 1 through 8) in 45 schools in Hungary. The goal of the program was to compensate for the educational disadvantages of children from poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973923
Measuring non-cognitive skills in evaluations of education policy interventions is an increasingly important task. At the same time, choosing the adequate measures is difficult. Contrary to cognitive development, there is a shortage of reliable and valid measures of personality and behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973955
This paper aims at estimating the effect of the kindergarten allowance program (a conditional cash transfer program organized by the government) introduced in Hungary in January 2009. We use institutional kindergarten data and municipality-level demographic data spanning ten years (2001 through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569995
Hungarian Abstract: A szakirodalom nagy része által elfogadott tény, hogy a globalizáció hatással van a jóléti államra. A kormányok kettős szorítással szembesülnek, megnőttek ugyanis a kiadások iránti igények, ugyanakkor a bevételi források lecsökkentek. A globalizáció...
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