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Wage and Pension Pressure on the Polish Budget

Crombrugghe, Alain L de - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper studies the role of wage and pension pressures in explaining the budget deficit crisis of 1991–2 after the remarkable 1990 Polish economic stabilization and liberalization. It also explains the persistence of the high tax wedge that later helped overcome the budget crisis. The...

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An Analysis of the Hungarian Tax Reform

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

The feasibility of systemic reforms may depend on their distributional consequences. The shift to a market economy can be expected to increase wage differentials and unemployment, which will have an adverse effect on income distribution. Income tax reform and the change in the system of consumer...

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The Informational Value of Job Search Data and the Dynamics of Search Behaviour: Evidence from Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Labour market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information on (a) the relationship between reported search and job-finding and (b) how search behaviour changes over a spell without work. We investigate these issues using a sample...

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Living Standards and Incentives in Transition: the Implications of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustion in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …

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Competition and Firm Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from Firm Level Surveys in Slovenia, Hungary and Romania

Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

countries, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. The data are based on interviews taken in more than 300 state-owned, privatized and … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short … (being state-owned and privatized enterprises) tend to perform worse than newly-established firms in Hungary and Slovenia. In …

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Unemployment Insurance and Incentives in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI … register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims … unemployed in Hungary to be fairly inelastic to changes in UI benefits. …

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Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

in Hungary we find that the male/female difference in log wages declined from 0.31 to 0.19 between 1986 and 1998 and that …

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Household Portfolios in Hungary, 1970-1990

Abel, István; Székely, Istvan P. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

The paper deals with household saving and portfolio allocation in Hungary during the economic transformation. It …

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Real Exchange Rates and Exchange Rate Policy in Hungary

Halpern, László - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Five real exchange rate indicators are computed to assess the international competitiveness of Hungarian industry. These indicators are explained in econometric equations by employment, unemployment, productivity, interest spread and real producer wage. Causality tests reveal that external...

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The Competitiveness of Hungarian Industry

Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon; Michael, Thomas; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Using an RAS update to 1990 of an 86-sector input-output table for Hungary in 1986, and corresponding data on world … sectors are obtained under a variety of conditions. Hungary's trade relationships and constraints on trade make it uncertain … Hungary and the EC on Hungary's competitiveness, finding that some sectors will be strengthened, e.g. forestry, agriculture …

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