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Monitor we find significant differences in entrepreneurial activity between Ireland and Hungary in both the type of people …-income countries, like Hungary, should focus on increasing human capital, promote enterprise development, and upgrading the quality of …
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European Union accession threaten the survival of traditional home gardens in Hungary's transitional economy. This paper … data collected in three environmentally sensitive areas of Hungary where pilot agri-environmental programmes have been …
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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...
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inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is good reason to investigate this issue in Hungary. We then report on …
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but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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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...
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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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five Candidate Countries before their accession to the EU: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia and Slovenia …
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After 1989, Hungary inherited a pension system characterised by an unfair and impenetrable mix of social insurance and …-case scenario, degeneration may lead to the demise of the new institutional arrangement. In the case of Hungary, its retirement …
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considerable difficulties faced by Hungary with the fulfillment of the Maastricht criteria. This is a puzzling development for two … reasons: first, during the early phase of the transition process Hungary was way ahead of Slovakia, and second, the high level … might prove temporary similarly to that of Hungary in the 1990s. The loss of an external disciplining force after Slovakia …
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