Background The assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with pemphigus is now of increasinginterest due to the availability of highly effective new therapies. Preference-based HRQoL values or health utilitiesrequired for medical and financial decision-making are not yet...

Introduction: Early biological treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may reverse the autoimmune response in some patients resulting in favorable long-term outcomes. Although the cost-effectiveness of this strategy has been questioned, biosimilar entries warrant the revision of clinical and...

Prevention against social risks through investment in human capital serves as the main focus of social investment. The social investment perspective suggests that social protection benefits should ensure adequate income maintenance over the life course. The goal of the current study is twofold:...

This paper analyzes the expansion and crisis of the foreign-currency (FX) loan market and responding mortgage-rescue programs in Hungary. We assess changes in the housing regime and illustrate the process through analyzing interactions between individual and institutional (state, financial...

This study provides a brief out line of a pension scheme based on human capital, an idea that stems from understanding that pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension schemes should be based on the recognition of parenting, as they distribute the yield of investments into human capital. The fact that this is...

Simonovits Andrásnak a mostani számban közölt vitacikke (Simonovits, 2020) különösen gyors volt, az előző számban közölt tanulmányomra reagált, még annak publikálása előtt úgy, hogy a folyamatosan fejlesztett cikkének aktuális állapotát mindig bemutatta nekem, s néha...

The polemic article of András Simonovits , published in the current issue (Simonovits, 2020), was particularly fast: he reacted to my paper published in the previous issue – even before its publication – by always showing me the current stage of his article while he was continuously...

A tanulmányban az állami nyugdíjrendszer öt fontos javítási lehetőségét írtuk le, amelyek többsége egymástól függetlenül is bevezethető. Ezek: 1. az egyéni számla vagy pontrendszer, 2. egyéni helyett családi nyugdíj, 3. automatikus korhatárindexálás, 4. állami...

We compare the pre- and post-2010 Hungarian political regimes through the lens of pension policies. We label the pre-2010 regime as democratic populist because it was characterized by fi scally irresponsible policies, yet it maintained the system of checks and balances and the rule of law. In...