This paper analyses the factors affecting the price level of Hungarian residential real estate using individual sales data. We focus on the role of the location of the property. We show that geographical factors are relevant in explaining housing prices using traditional type groups constructed...

The aim of this paper is to investigate how the spatial equilibrium model applies to Hungary. For this we create a new database on modified micro-regional level between 2001 and 2014 with real estate/property market, labor market, regional and demographical data. We use this database to answer...

This paper presents four case-studies of economies with developed regional policies; the European Union, Spain, Italy and Brazil. These cases have been chosen due to their relevance when studying regional problems in Colombia. Regional policy has performed relatively poorly in all cases since...

This paper analyses the factors affecting the price level of Hungarian residential real estate using individual sales data. We focus on the role of the location of the property. We show that geographical factors are relevant in explaining housing prices using traditional type groups constructed...

The aim of this paper is to investigate how the spatial equilibrium model applies to Hungary. For this we create a new database on modified micro-regional level between 2001 and 2014 with real estate/property market, labor market, regional and demographical data. We use this database to answer...

In this paper, we investigate how much of the wage differences between workers and districts is explained by employee and employer characteristics and by differences in regional characteristics. For this purpose, we use the Ministry of Finance's annual wage survey, which provides detailed data...

The role of multinational companies is significant in each of the national and thus in the global economy. The longstanding debate in the literature is whether the economic growth is more likely to be driven by the large-scale enterprises or small and medium-sized enterprises, especially if the...

The article analyzes the requirement recently formulated by different parties of the accession process: the candidate countries should raise their wage level close to the average of the EU even before they join the union. The authors show that wage convergence, defined this way, has no...

By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...

The paper examines the labour-market position of persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary. First, using simple labour-market indicators and international-comparison data, we find that persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary are in a relatively good position in terms of...