Testing Corruption Indicators: Statistical Analysis of a Hungarian Cartel
The study analyzes the reliability of corruption risk indicators using Hungarian public procurement data, specifically focusing on EU-funded contracts associated with a cartel case revealed by the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) in 2016. The investigation aims to determine whether corruption risk indicators for public procurement contracts related to the identified cartel case (214 contracts) are […]
MUNKAERŐPIACI TÜKÖR 2022
Kötetünk ebben az évben a társadalmi egyenlőtlenségek és a társadalmi mobilitás témakörét járja körül. Széles áttekintést nyújt a témában elérhető közgazdasági és szociológiai elemzésekből, amelyek segítségével végig veszi az emberi élet szakaszait a születéstől az időskorig. Minden életszakaszban a jellemző társadalmi egyenlőtlenségi dimenziókat elemzi, gyermekkorban például az oktatásban, felnőttkorban a munkaerőpiacon, időskorban pedig a nyugdíjrendszerben megfigyelhető társadalmi egyenlőtlenségekre mutat rá. A kötet […]
The effect of temperature on birth rates in Europe
Using data from 32 European countries for nearly 244 million live births between 1969 and 2021, this paper examines the effects of temperatures on birth rates. The results show that exposure to hot days slightly reduces birth rates five to eight months later, while much stronger negative effects are observed nine to ten months after […]
The Aftermaths of Lowering the School Leaving Age – Effects on Roma Youth
In 2013, the Hungarian government cut the school leaving age from 18 to 16. We study the impact of this unique reform on the country’s sizeable Roma minority using census data on the universe of 17-year-olds in 2011 and a 10 percent random sample in 2016. School attendance fell by more than 20 percentage points […]
Contribution of High School Heterogeneity to the Wage Variation of Young Workers
The aim of this paper is to quantify how much of the initial wage differentials of young workers is explained by the secondary school they attended, and to disentangle the (descriptive) channels contributing to these differences. The analysis is based on the HUN-REN CERS Admin3 database, taking advantage of the fact that for some cohorts, […]
AZ INKUBÁTORTÓL A TŐZSDÉIG
A könyv a startupokat világszerte segítő és finanszírozó intézmények működését tekinti át. Így bemutatja az üzleti inkubátorok, akcelelrátorok, üzleti angyalok, startupstúdiók, sajáttőke-alapú közösségi finanszírozási platformok, valamint a kockázatitőke-alapok nemzetközileg jellemző működését, majd ennek a kelet-közép-európai régióban tapasztalható jellegzetességeit. Az elemzés nagyszámú konkrét példa és statisztikai adat alapján azt vizsgálja, hogy miként hat egymásra az üzleti […]
The Macroeconomics of Managers: Supply, Selection, and Competition
Good management practices are important determinants of firm success. It is unclear, however, to what extent pro-management policies can shape aggregate outcomes. We use data on corporations and their top managers in Hungary during and after its post-communist transition to document a number of salient patterns. First, the number of managers is low under communism […]
Poor housing quality and the health of newborns and young children
This study uses linked administrative data on live births, hospital stays, and census records for children born in Hungary between 2006 and 2011 to examine the relationship between poor housing quality and the health of newborns and children aged 1-2 years. We show that poor housing quality, defined as lack of access to basic sanitation […]
Competition, confidence and gender: shifting the focus from the overconfident to the realistic
The gender gap in competitiveness is argued to explain gender differences in later life outcomes, including career choices and the gender wage gap. In experimental settings, a prevalent explanation attributes this gap to males being more (over)confident than females (we call this the compositional channel). While our lab-in-the-field study using data from students in 53 […]
Evaluating the effect of a drastic cut in unemployment benefit duration on re-employment and wages of jobseekers
We evaluate the effect of a drastic cut in potential benefit duration, 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 administrative data, which allows us to obtain information on a large sample of UI benefit claimants, and we […]
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: evidence from time use surveys
The Earth’s climate is projected to warm significantly in the 21st century, and this will affect human societies in many ways. Since sleep is a basic human need and part of everyone’s life, the question of how temperature affects human sleep naturally arises. This paper examines the effect of daily mean temperature on sleep duration […]
A rational pension reform package: Hungary, 2025
As part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP, 2023), the Hungarian government pledged to reform the pension system. The main themes are sustainability and adequacy. The pension plan is to be discussed publicly and put into law by March 2025. The last detailed official pension study was the 2016-discussion paper of the Hungarian National […]
