Az előadás elképzelt beszélgetés az 1970-es évek standard mikroökonómia-tankönyvein nevelődött, ugyanakkor a gazdaság valóságos működését illetően teljességgel tapasztalatlan s a makroökonómiában teljességgel járatlan mai Robinson és az őt szakmai pártfogásába vevő...

Számos magyar és külföldi tanulmány kimutatta, hogy a nemzetközi cégek leányvállalatai bérezésben és termelékenységben jelentős előnnyel rendelkeznek a helyiek vállalatokkal szemben. A magyar szakirodalomból azonban hiányzik az olyan vizsgálat, amely bemutatná ennek az...

Miért, mi a különbség!? kérdezett értetlenséget színlelve fanyar humorral vissza Varga Júlia tankönyvének decemberi sajtóbemutatóján a kiadót képviselő háziasszonyként egyetemi tanár kollégám Szabó Katalin, miután a könyv ajánlójaként e profánul hangzónak szánt...

This article aims to understand more about the origins of internal careers through a case study of accounting personnel at the French company Saint-Gobain at the turn of the twentieth century. The first section offers a review of various bodies of research that will allow us to define the notion...

In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education are low and the transition from education to work is...

Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that immigrants are more likely than natives to work in risky jobs,...

We study a model that integrates productive and socialization efforts with network choice and parental investments. We characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of this game. We first show that individuals underinvest in productive and social effort, but that solving only the investment...

This paper studies the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. We develop a quantitative model of college choice with uncertain graduation. Departing from much of the literature, we model in detail how students progress through college. This allows us to parameterize the model...

Women in developing countries are disempowered relative to their contemporaries in developed countries. High youth unemployment and early marriage and childbearing interact to limit human capital investment and enforce dependence on men. In this paper we evaluate an attempt to jump-start...

A parallel of education with transformative processes in standard markets suggest that a more severe control of the quality of the output will improve the overall quality of the education. This paper shows a somehow counterintuitive result: an increase in the exam diffculty may reduce the...