Az elmúlt évtizedek egyik legfontosabb világgazdasági jellemzője a működőtőke-áramlások jelentős felgyorsulása s a régiók, országok, valamint országokon belüli térségek közötti egyenlőtlen eloszlása volt. 2002 végén a fejlett országok birtokolták a...

A szerzők először a bérmunka világgazdaságban betöltött szerepét, a bérmunkáztatók és bérmunkázók motivációit tekintik át. Kitérnek a nemzetközi szabályozási környezet jellegzetességeire, a statisztikai számbavétel problémáira. A nemzetközi szakirodalom alapján...

This paper examines if broadband Internet access (‘broadband’) developments enhance regional cohesion in ten New Member States (NMS-10) of the European Union. It focuses on broadband developments in these countries financed from Structural Funds (SF). The importance of their impacts...

Relocation is a way of reducing costs, thus increasing competitiveness, by splitting production and services between countries. The main argument kindling the relocation debate suggests that moving abroad generates job losses in the home country, while production and job gains appear only in the...

Hungary is increasingly appearing on the map of trade in services. This is mainly due to the appearance of foreign owned shared services centres, regional or even global headquarters of multinationals. First, data problems are listed in detail when analysing tradable services (applying,...

Competitive and innovative Hungarian SMEs in the medical precision instruments sector can be characterised by continuous development, special knowledge and innovation activity. These are the main factors behind their high level of competitiveness and higher than average level of...

Hungary is a leading foreign investor among the new member states of the European Union and among the Visegrád countries. It started to invest abroad earlier than other countries of the region, and thus the stock of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is higher than in other countries of...

This paper summarizes a research project devoted to analyzing the development of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and emerging multinational companies from Visegrád countries: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. After several years of foreign direct investment inflows to...