A lot of research on income mobility and income inequality is based on survey questions about income. Various question formats are being used. Researchers seem to assume that the actual format used delivers the best estimate of the “true” income. However, surprisingly little empirical...

The paper intends to increase the information and knowledge on graduates’ labour market entry and early career under post-communism. The specific purpose of the analysis is to examine gender differences with respect to two particular research questions: the length of time graduates need to...

Data from the Social Mobility Survey and the Hungarian Household Panel Survey (HHP) are used to investigate transition to and from self-employment in Hungary between 1980 and 1997. First, a general overview of the shifting political environment of self-employment in Hungary is...

The paper approaches the issue of school choice in an indirect manner by investigating the effectiveness of public, private government-dependent and private independent schools in 19 OECD countries selected from the PISA 2000 survey for this purpose. In a multi-level approach we estimate these...

"Unter Zuhilfenahme repräsentativer Datenmaterialien für die gesamte Erwerbsbevölkerung und bei Abiturienten der Geburtsjahrgänge zwischen 1946 bis 1955 werden in einem deutsch-ungarischen Ländervergleich die Wirkungen der Abiturienten- und Akademikerexpansion als typische Kennzeichen der...

"Unter Zuhilfenahme repräsentativer Datenmaterialien für die gesamte Erwerbsbevölkerung und bei Abiturienten der Geburtsjahrgänge zwischen 1946 bis 1955 werden in einem deutsch-ungarischen Ländervergleich die Wirkungen der Abiturienten- und Akademikerexpansion als typische Kennzeichen der...

Using crosssection data from the REFLEX/HEGESCO surveys, this paper explores the likelihood of educationjob mismatch in Central and Eastern Europe. We classify countries in two groups according to the signaling strength of their educational credentials: the occupational labor market group...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate vertical and horizontal mismatch between education and current occupation for graduates in four post-communist societies: Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Slovenia. In this way it contributes to the field by exploring how mechanisms, known...