This is a brief summary of the most important findings of the national career guidance study of 2018. The study focuses on the pre-career, seventh-grade primary school students' interest in further education and career choices. The 2018 survey was conducted by the Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (HCIC). Experts of its territorial chambers surveyed 9228 seventh grade pupils.

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• Corporate reactions to the raise of the minimum wage/guaranteed minimum salary of qualified staf
• Minimum wage tendencies in Hungary, responses on the 2001 rise
• International trends

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• IEER quarterly business climate survey results, April 2018
• The effects of digitalisation on inflation
• International trends

For concluding its Quarterly Business Climate Index survey, IEER asked 400 CEOs about the situation and the outlook of their businesses. The basis used for calculating the Quarterly Business Climate Index and the Quarterly Uncertainty Index was a sample of 300 small and medium-sized enterprises (20-249 employees) and 100 large enterprises (employing 250 people or more). Surveyed small and medium-sized enterprises were evaluated by using our SME Outlook Business Climate Index and SME Outlook Uncertainty Index.

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• Favourable business situation, improving outlook - results of the April 2018 IEER Business Climate Survey

• Linking EU trade policy with sustainable development

• International trends

The latest wave of the IEER Business Climate Survey is based on the responses of 3,274 enterprises. According to the findings, the Business Climate Index was at 53 points as of April 2018. This score has been the highest since 1998, the year when surveying began.

Companies still see business climate as favourable. The improving tendency of the previous year seems to be continuing. For most part this can be put down to the fact that expectations for unfilled orders have become much higher. Business climate outlook has also improved slightly.

Uncertainty index dropped 3 points below the October value to 39. This might mean that the optimism of Hungarian businesses has become more uniform compared to previous year’s data.

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• Companies in public procurement tenders
• Growth continues in the Eurozone. Quarterly forecast of Ifo, Insee, and Instat institutes
• International trends

In our analysis we shall present company participation in public procurement tenders, featuring the most active corporate circles and specialisation fields. We shall also consider the information sources on which the companies relied to obtain details about current public procurement tenders. We used January 2018 data from HCCI IEER quarterly Business Climate Survey, which is based on the answers of 400 CEOs leading Hungarian companies.

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• Results of HCCI-IEER's quarterly business cycle survey, January, 2018

• New import tariffs in the United States

• International trends

The quarterly corporate business climate survey of Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) is based on the opinions of 400 chief executives about the current state and outlook of their businesses. From the companies surveyed, 300 small and medium-sized enterprises (with 20-249 employees) were selected to calculate the Comprehensive SME Business Climate Index and the Comprehensive SME Uncertainty Index. For the greater sample of 400, including large enterprises employing over 249 people, a Quarterly Business Climate Index and a Quarterly Uncertainty Index were calculated.