This study examines the scope for redistributive government policies based on progressive income taxation and direct income transfers. We concentrate on the case of Hungary. We first survey recent developments in the economic circumstances of the household sector and changes in the Hungarian...

We present results for the so-called “bar-attendance” model of market behavior: p adaptive agents, each possessing n prediction rules chosen randomly from a pool, attempt to attend a bar whose cut-off is s. The global attendance time series has a mean near, but not equal to, s. The variance,...

This note describes the matching procedure used to construct panel data sets from the 1987, 1989 and 1991 Hungarian Household Budget servey samples.

The authors compare the incidence of and characteristics associated with child poverty in the UK and Hungary in 1993. Using a model families approach, the differences between systems of state support for families with and without children are examined, and conclusions drawn about their...

The paper examines the use of taxation as a method of improving the redistributional impact of social benefits, focusing on the case of the universal family allowance programme in Hungary.

The relationship between marital splits and personal income changes is of great relevance to social policy. The aim of this paper is to provide new longitudinal evidence for Britain about the relationship between marital splits and changes in personal economic well-being using data from the...

We provide new evidence about what happens to peoples incomes when their or their parents marital union dissolves, using longitudinal data from waves 1-4 of the British Household Panel Survey. Marital splits are associated with substantial declines in real income for separating wives and...