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Spatial and socio-economic characteristics of official labour migration from neighbouring countries to Hungary
Jakobi, Akos - 2010
As a governmental institution the Public Employment Service in Hungary has the function to control and register … last decade 60-80 thousand foreign citizens were employed yearly in Hungary, of them the majority is coming from the … the most people to Hungary. Annually nearly 30-40 thousand low educated men of Romanian citizenship receive manual legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332519
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The Services Sectors in Central and Eastern Europe
Vidovic, Hermine - 2002
The paper covers seven transition countries the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100025
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Transition Countries Resist Global Slowdown: Productivity Gains Offset Effects of Appreciation
Podkaminer, Leon - 2003
After satisfactory performance of the transition countries in 2000, their growth slowed down in 2001 as the external conditions deteriorated. This tendency was checked in the second half of 2002. Industrial production and exports have generally strengthened since then - though in some countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100029
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Transition Countries on the Eve of EU Enlargement
Podkaminer, Leon - 2004
some moderate slowdown in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. A definite growth slowdown was only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100039
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As East You Go, the More They Grow: Transition Economies in a New Setting
Gligorov, Vladimir; Pöschl, Josef; Richter, Sandor - 2004
Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. A challenge to the enlarged Union's (EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100044
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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition
Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261836
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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268760
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268767
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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies
Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274345
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Bildungspolitik und Systemtransformation in Zentraleuropa
Slodowicz, Jan - 2005
The main subject is the examination of the different strategies employed by Lithuania, Poland and Hungary during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471622