The effect of funding liquidity regulation and ESG promotion on market liquidity
Liquidity is a key consideration in financial markets, especially in times of financial crises. For this reason, regulatory attention to and measures in this field have been on the rise for the past years. Based on practical experience, regulations aiming at ensuring funding liquidity or, in general, reducing certain risky positions have the side effect […]
Unexpected Inflation and Public Pensions: The Case of Hungary
Public pensions are indexed to prices or wages or to their combinations; therefore, the impact of inflation on the real value of benefits can often be neglected, especially under indexation to prices. At high and accelerating/decelerating inflation like currently prevailing in Hungary, however, this is not the case. (i) With fast inflation of basic necessities, […]
Heterogeneous wage structure effects: a partial European East-West comparison
We estimate heterogeneous wage structure effects for country-pairs within the EU by the Causal Forest algorithm, then identify groups of workers with the highest and lowest discrepancies in terms of wage differentials. We find that, in the East-West comparison, age is the most consistently differentiating factor. People over 40 are most adversely treated in the […]
Where is the pain the most acute? The market segments particularly affected by gender wage discrimination in Hungary
The gender earnings gap can be attributed either to the different distribution of males and females across jobs or to within job biases in favour of men. The latter is frequently called the wage structure effect, and it may be interpreted as wage discrimination against women. In this paper we focus on this second source […]
Precautionary Fertility: Conceptions, Births, and Abortions around Employment Shocks
This paper studies the effects of employment shocks on births and induced abortions. We are the first to show that abortions play a role in fertility responses to job displacement. Furthermore, we document precautionary fertility behavior: the anticipatory response of women to expected labor market shocks. Using individual-level administrative data from Hungary, we look at […]
An Axiomatization of the Pairwise Netting Proportional Rule in Financial Networks
We consider financial networks where agents are linked to each other via mutual liabilities. In case of bankruptcy, there are potentially many bankruptcy rules, ways to distribute the assets of a bankrupt agent over the other agents. One common approach is to first apply pairwise netting of agents that have mutual liabilities and next use […]
THE HUNGARIAN LABOUR MARKET 2020 – The COVID-19 Pandemic
The Hungarian Labour Market Yearbook series was launched in 2000 by the Institute of Economics, in order to report on the processes and latest trends of the Hungarian labour market and employment policy, and provide an in-depth analysis of a particular subject each year. In compiling the content of each yearbook, the intention of the […]
THE HUNGARIAN LABOUR MARKET 2020
The Hungarian Labour Market Yearbook series was launched in 2000 by the Institute of Economics, in order to report on the processes and latest trends of the Hungarian labour market and employment policy, and provide an in-depth analysis of a particular subject each year. In compiling the content of each yearbook, the intention of the […]
COMPETITION AND REGULATION 2020
The Institute of Economics, CERS launched a new series of publications entitled “Verseny és szabályozás” (Competition and Regulation) in 2007. Twelve annual volumes have been published so far in Hungarian. The current volume is the second one in English, and it contains 10 selected translations from the crop of the last four years. It offers […]
THE HUNGARIAN LABOUR MARKET 2019
The Hungarian Labour Market Yearbook presents characteristics of the Hungarian labour market and employment policy, and provides an in-depth analysis of a topical issue each year. It is an important focus for the analyses and data published in the yearbook series to serve as a good source of knowledge on the various topics of labour […]
Disparities in premature and old age mortality in Europe in the first decade of the 2000s
This study presents disparities in mortality rates of 38-41 European countires and attempts at giving explanations for these. Explanatory factors of premature (0-64 ages) and old age (above 65 years old) mortality rates are compared accordig to cause-specific diseases and genders for 2009. In addition, mortality disparities due to avoidable (preventable and treatable) diseases are […]
Indexing public pensions in progress to wages or prices
Initial public pensions are indexed to the economy-wide average wages, but pensions in progress are indexed to prices, average wages or their combinations––varying across countries and periods. We create a simple overlapping cohorts framework to study the properties of indexing pensions in progress––emphasizing a neglected issue: close wage paths should imply close benefit paths even […]
