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31 of August, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

A GVI elemzésében a legjobb hazai gimnáziumok diákjainak továbbtanulási terveit vizsgálja. Az eredmények szerint a tanulók döntő többsége szeretne továbbtanulni, mégpedig hazai felsőoktatási intézményben és csupán 7%-uk jelentkezik külföldre (is). A rendelkezésünkre álló statisztikai adatok szintén azt jelzik, hogy a magyar diákok nem vesznek részt nagy számban (hosszú távú) külföldi képzésekben, azonban számuk növekvő tendenciát mutat az utóbbi években.

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31 of July, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

A recent analysis from the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) examined the experiences of late payment and debt queues of domestic enterprises. The results are based on data from the IEER January 2016 Quarterly Business Climate Survey during which we asked 400 domestic enterprises about the topic. The results show that 81% of businesses had at least one business partner that paid late in 2015, while 45% of respondents themselves owed to their suppliers at least once in the period under review. The highest proportion of late payments was among small businesses and the construction sector. From the combined results of the last few years, though, it appears that the situation of companies in terms of late payments has improved: the number of business partners paying late has declined on average as well as the amounts outstanding. The proportion of companies that could not pay their suppliers on time at least once because of a late payment by their customers is also in decline

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30 of June, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In its ongoing analysis of Hungarian companies, the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research examined the practices relating to the use of fringe benefits among domestic enterprises. The analysis is based on the data of the April 2016 Business Climate survey of 2800 domestic enterprises which were questioned in relation to the non-wage benefits they provide. The results show that 55% of companies with a minimum of one employee provided at least one form of fringe benefits in 2016, the most popular non-wage benefits being considered were local travel allowances and the Erzsébet vouchers (food coupons, but sometimes used for non-food purchases). The use of fringe benefits is associated with a company's size, the economic sector it operates in, and its level of foreign ownership, as well as a firm’s business situation: the highest proportion of those that provide fringe benefits are typically medium and large sized companies, those that are foreign-owned, firms operating in the manufacturing sector, and those in a good business situation. For 83% of responding companies, the amount allocated to fringe benefits has not changed over the past year. Those companies which has cut the wages during 2015 has not risen the non-wage benefits either and one third them has cut the amount allocated to fringe benefits as well which means that Hungarian companies do not use fringe benefits as a compensation.

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31 of May, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

The business climate survey of the HCCI Research Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship (IEER), which is the largest business climate assessment of its kind in Hungary, covering most companies, took place for the thirty-seventh time in April 2016. In the following, we present the main results.

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30 of April, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In our analysis, we examine how domestic small and medium-sized business owners and managers rate the effectiveness and quality of service of some public authorities and institutions. The analysis is based on four waves of the IEER SME Perspectives study (October 2010, July 2014, July 2015, and January 2016), in which we examined the assessments of 1,207 respondents.

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31 of March, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

Family-friendly benefits in Hungarian corporate practice

In the coordination of family and work family-friendly labor market policiessuch as different types of flexible (atypical) employment, have a major role. Survey data of the joint "short-term labor market forecast" research in 2013 and 2014 conducted by the National Labor Office (NLO) and the HCCI Institute of Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) shows which family-friendly benefits were preferably applied by Hungarian companies and what are the leading company types in the family-friendly attitudes.

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31 of January, 2016Research
Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In the autumn of 2015 IEER conducted a survey for its short-term labor market research, and within this framework we asked the companies contacted on issues related to public workers. Most companies have not been in contact with public works labourers or public works programs. Most of those that have, evaluated the impact on their business situation negatively. More claim that they would employ former public workers than those who actually did in 2015, which may indicate an improper functioning of the labor market.

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31 of December, 2015Research
IEER Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In the autumn of 2015 the most recent survey of the Short-Term Labour Market Forecast was conducted by the Ministry of National Economy and the IEER. In the research 7,112 company managers were interviewed about their current and expected demand for labour. The following brief summary shows the change in the proportion of companies experiencing recruitment difficulties and the changes in various types of labour recruitment difficulties. Finally, we also present how the recruitment difficulties vary in different company groups.

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30 of November, 2015Research
IEER Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In our following brief analysis we examine for what purposes domestic enterprises generally use the internet. Our analysis is based on data from the business climate survey conducted by the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) in October 2015.

The data show that the highest proportion of firms surveyed use the internet for administration (e.g. the Hungarian version of an electronic civil service portal called “Ugyfelkapu” or “Client Gateway”), email correspondence with customers, and to follow market trends. Just over half of the analyzed companies have their own website, which is explained by the large number of micro businesses employing fewer than 10 people. The computer systems themselves along with the security of the stored information and the modern state of the technology were all regarded to be very important by the companies.

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9 of November, 2015Research
IEER Monthly Bulletin of Economic Trends

In our analysis we examine articles dealing with the subject of debt queues and how they changed over time as well as their context. The data used is derived from the online content analysis software Textplore (http://textplore.org/) developed by GVI. In our database there are 607 articles from 2002 or a later which contains at least one of the terms ("debt queue", "debt circle" or "late payment") and appears in one of the following portals: fn.hu, hetivalasz.hu, hir24.hu , hvg.hu, index.hu, mno.hu, origo.hu, vg.hu

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