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Bildungspolitik und Systemtransformation in Zentraleuropa

Slodowicz, Jan - 2005

Es wird untersucht, auf welche Weise die Länder Litauen, Polen und Ungarn ihre Bildungssysteme vor dem Hintergrund der …The main subject is the examination of the different strategies employed by Lithuania, Poland and Hungary during the …

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Real earnings and business cycles: new evidence

Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2009

In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and strengths. This may serve to produce a distorted picture of wage cyclicality. Here, we deploy frequency domain methods that allow us to asses...

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Fiscal Shocks and Their Consequences

Burnside, A. Craig; Eichenbaum, Martin; Fisher, Jonas D. M. - 2003

This paper investigates the response of hours worked and real wages to fiscal policy shocks in the U.S. during the post World War II era. We identify these shocks with exogenous changes in military purchases and argue that they lead to a persistent increase in government purchases and tax rates...

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The comparative statics of industry-level produced-input-use in HOS trade theory

Steedman, Ian - 2005

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Review of Political Economy, published by and copyright Routledge.

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Could the Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?

Acs, Zoltan J.; O'Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - 2007

significant differences in entrepreneurial activity between Ireland and Hungary in both the type of people starting businesses and … Ireland and Hungary (Reynolds, et al 2005). We expect that countries will benefit from FDI spillovers when there is a strong … between Ireland and Hungary in terms of (i) levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurial activity, (ii) the entrepreneurial …

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An EU Sky Trust: Distributional Analysis for Hungary

Ferjentsik, Viola; Ash, Michael - 2007

We analyze the effects of EU adoption of a Sky Trust (Barnes and Breslow 2003) on the income distribution of Hungary, a …

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Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence

Tonin, Mirco - 2007

empirical test using the massive increase in the minimum wage that took place in Hungary in 2001 as a quasi-natural experiment. …

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Transition on the Shop Floor - The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

Köll?, János - 2004

While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...

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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies 1

Jurajda, ŠtěpÁn; Terrell, Katherine - 2009

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...

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Firms’ Price Markups and Returns to Scale in Imperfect Markets: Bulgaria and Hungary

Dobrinsky, Rumen; Kőrösi, Gábor; Markov, Nikolay; … - 2004

Under perfect competition and constant returns to scale, firms producing homogeneous products set their prices at their marginal costs which also equal their average costs. However, the departure from these standard assumptions has important implications with respects to the derived theoretical...

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