The majority of the colony of Chinese and Vietnamese people in Hungary are first generation economy migrant, who either have two homes, or who are closely connected to their country of origin by psychological or social ways - due to the globalization patterns and technological changes. The Institue for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) presents a qualitative research on the characteristics and types of labour among East Asians in Hungary
Read more >>>The Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research in collaboration with the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted a research between Hungarian economic entities that offer practical training to students enrolled in vocational programs. The aim of this research is to estimate the effects of the recent alterations - made by the Bajnai-cabinet - in the tax law on the number of student contracts. We conducted an online survey between May 4-11 2009, by contacting the representatives of enterprises that employ students with student contracts. Although we sent outmore than 1000 surveys, we got answers from 302 enterprises.
According to the results of the research, the changes in the law might lead to the settlement only of 1358 student contracts instead of 6201 (without the modifications of the law). Moreover, 75% of the respondents - above all the micro enterprises and SME's in the construction business told us that they will cancel some student contracts if the changes come into realization. As a result of the alterations in law, the total number of student contracts are expected to be dropped from 10,897 to 3501, all together a 74% decrease.
Read more >>>Our survey in the SME Outlook – conducted in April 2009 – focused not only on the business situation of SMEs, but also on their opinions about the economic recession.
Read more >>>IEER Business Climate Index significantly decreased compared to its value from last October. This tendency is also followed by the highly increasing pessimistic anticipations of Hungarian enterprises. The recession in real economy is so significant that it equally influences all sectors. Business climate anticipations, however, predict amelioration by the end of 2009.
Read more >>>Our latest survey in the SME Outlook – conducted in January 2009 – focused not only on the business situation of SMEs, but also on the characteristics of chain indebtedness and late payment among SMEs.
Read more >>>Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour conducted a research on the expected demand of labour and short-term business expectations of 7406 enterprises.
Read more >>>Our latest survey in the SME Outlook – conducted in October 2008 – focused not only on the business situation of SMEs, but also on their opinions about the economic and political environment.
Read more >>>There was a dramatic decrease in the anticipations for the future of Hungarian enterprises according to the results of the IEER Business Tendency Survey from October 2008. After the amelioration in the first half of the year, the anticipations for the near future changed dramatically by the second half of the year due to the financial crisis that was apparently followed by a real economic crisis as well.
Read more >>>Our survey in the SME Outlook– fifteenth in a row and conducted in July 2008 –focused not only onthe business situation of SMEs, but also we analysed the characteristics of their debts and the effects of the reduction in the forint/euro exchange rate on the SME sector.
Our recent study is connected to a survey conducted between June and September 2006. While last year's survey aimed to measurethe anticipations of SME's on business climate and employment trends andthe opinion of students enrolled invocational training programs - collecting information frommore than 2200 enterprises from 17 different counties of Hungary -, we made significant alterations on this year's survey. Between July and October 2007, we used more-or-less the same survey on 2088 enterprises than last year but this time we conducted interviews only with those students we asked last year as well.
The county chambers of commerce and industry contributed to the successful transaction of the survey helping to map the business situation of enterprises and their opinion on the vocational school graduates. Also, we used the central database on the practical training centresowned by the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry to choose a sample.
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