This paper investigates to what extent tax burden can be used to compare countries with different pension systems. It was concluded that in one respect tax burden ratios used by international institutions fail to completely represent the share of income left after taxation, as the contributions...

Many welcomed the mass immigration of 2015 from an economic approach in Germany. Immigrants were seen as the solution to the German labor shortage and the potential to improve the expected deterioration of public finances as a result of demographic trends. As German integration policy has become...

The population of Hungary has been continuously decreasing in recent decades, along with the developed countries of the world. Research identifies many factors as the cause of demographic processes. The low level of fertility rate is attributable to chang-ing family formation patterns, more...

As countries of the world used large amounts of public funds to manage the 2008 financial crisis, public debt has risen to a critical level in many of them. Due to the drop in real economy, several countries faced unemployment and economic fallback that are still unresolved to this day. After...

In developed countries, independent central banks control monetary policy. The goals and instruments of monetary policy are taught in every economics course; however, at times theory fails to work perfectly in practice. In our paper, we review the system of inflation targeting applied by the...

In recent decades, there has been much debate on how a state can establish a pension system that takes into considera-tion the balance of the general government. In addition to the condition of an equilibrium, social security and the stability of the value of pensions should also be ensured. The...

There seems to be a decision reached in one of the major social debates of the past years, under which the uniform, single social health insurance system in Hungary is to be retained. Regrettably overshadowed by the above debate, the place and role of complementary health insurance systems and...

A gazdasági növekedés elérése napjainkban is a gazdaságpolitika fontos problematikája. A fejlett világ gazdaságainak növekedése az utóbbi évtizedekben számottevően lassult. Tanulmányunkban az eurózóna gazdasági növekedését vizsgáljuk a 2010 és 2019 közötti időszakban a...

Achieving economic growth remains an important issue for economic policy today. Growth in developed economies has slowed considerably in recent decades. In our study, we examine economic growth in the euro area between 2010 and 2019 in the light of secular stagnation theory. The concept of...

Magyarország népessége az utóbbi évtizedekben folyamatosan csökken, egyetemben a világ fejlett országaival. A kutatások számos tényezőt azonosítanak a demográfiai folyamatokat meghatározó okként. A fertilitási ráta alacsony szintje mögött a családalapítási szokások...