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To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5 … large and positive. In Poland there were also large and positive earnings impacts. A negative estimated earnings impact in … Poland, outside of service industries in Hungary, and outside of manufacturing and construction in Poland. …
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markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of …-employment, and comparison groups were done in Hungary and Poland in early 1997. Preliminary analysis suggests positive net impacts … Poland to assess how representative the comparison groups are of the general population of registered unemployed workers. …
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The system change has been accompanied by large scale redundancies, massive and frequently long-term unemployment, a high level of inactivity and growing income and regional disparities in Hungary. Transition has its winners and losers both in terms of economic activity and wages. The paper...
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This paper presents estimates of the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on reemployment and earnings in the Republic of Hungary during the early phase of post-Socialist economic restructuring. Since assignment to programs resulted in groups with vastly dissimilar...
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Social Monitor 2002 reviews recent socio-economic developments in the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It contains three articles: Social trends in transition: an update on trends in a range of topics including income and poverty, fertility,...
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The Privatisation process of State enterprises, in countries once being members of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid, is perceived as the main element of structural changes, leading to the economic system transformation and economic development. Although, privatisation cannot be understood as...
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-subsidization - has increased during the transition in Poland and Czechoslovakia, and has remained constant in Hungary. After reexamining …
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for 9 over 12 Central Eastern European countries and Russia, when the endogenous shock is mild and ambiguous. Moreover …
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Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as well as in China. For each country, it provides a forecast relating to GDP growth, inflation … positive growth figures recorded by the global economy as a whole. Central and Eastern Europe, together with Russia, Ukraine … Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. A challenge to the enlarged Union's (EU …
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The transition countries approach EU enlargement with GDP growth outperforming the 'old' EU. In 2003, Poland's economy … recorded in Serbia and Montenegro. Russia and Ukraine performed very well, registering significant and balanced growth. The … much more essential structural changes in the composition of exports have certainly continued. For Russia, external …
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