As a result of the economic transformation that followed the systemic change of the political order, the formerly prominent role of internal labour markets of large enterprises has been largely discontinued in Hungary and taken over by occupational type labour markets. At the same time the...

The paper considers child poverty in Hungary, a country at the forefront of the transition process. We investigate how household characteristics are associated with the incidence, persistence and dynamics of poverty among children in Hungary, looking at the years 1992-96. We find that children...