The innovative and growth potential of new start-ups is often questioned on the basis that many new entrants only find themselves in the private sector due to loss of jobs in the shrinking public sector. The paper explores one plausible route to this kind of self-employment. Using labour force...

According to data sources, approximately 300 000 to 400 000 Hungarian-born citizens lived outside Hungary in 2013. Although more up-to-date data are not available, we know that the pace of emigration peaked in 2013, meaning this figure encapsulates the largest wave of migration. The main...

Does a drastic cut in in potential benefit duration affect the take-up of unemployment insurance benefits among those eligible? We evaluate a policy change reducing the maximum length of UI benefits from 9 to 3 months in Hungary at the end of 2011. We rely on rich longitudinal matched...