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27 of January, 2016Research
Short-term Labor Market Forecast – 2016

The latest survey for the annual “Short-term labor market forecast” research project of the Ministry of National Economics and HCCI Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) took place in September-October 2015. During the survey county government offices and IEER staff interviewed 7,112 company managers about their current and expected need for labor. The results can be considered representative by the companies’ geographical location and economic sector, and within this by employee numbers. In the following the results of this research are presented compared to other relevant data sources and estimates.

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14 of December, 2015Research
Do young humanities and arts graduates have a labor market disadvantage in Hungary?

The study examines the employment status (i) and wages (ii) of young humanities and arts graduates compared to other graduates in Hungary using the 2013 data of the Hungarian Graduate Career Tracking System. The dataset has several limitations regarding reliability and validity, which we attempted to correct to improve the quality of our estimations. The results requires further research. We find that amongst males the conditional overall employment differences for humanities and arts graduates without a degree requirement are not statistically significant. As for jobs requiring tertiary education and salaries disadvantage is present only compared to engineering, information technology and economics or business graduates. Amongst females we find that the conditional employment differences vary greatly by the definition of degree requirement, so our results are unequivocal. However salary disadvantage is statistically significant compared to engineering, information technology and economics or business graduates. Our results suggest that in Hungary young graduates with these three degrees have more advantageous labor market outcomes than others, but the situation of humanities and arts graduates does not differ greatly from the rest of the disciplines.

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9 of December, 2015Research
Internet usage of Hungarian firms

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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8 of December, 2015Research
Results of the IEER SME Outlook Survey October 2015

The results of the latest IEER SME Outlook business climate survey reveal more favourable economic conditions compared to the previous quarter: the Business Climate Index increased from 16 to 20 points. This value is far higher than the one in October 2014 (10 points). The Uncertainty Index is at a current level of 38 points, which is higher than in the previous quarter (it was 35 points in July 2015), and the same as the value measured in the preceding quarter. The value of the Uncertainty Index indicates that the current trend is not uniform within the private sector, and that it will continue to be confined to one part of the economy and will not be felt by all small and medium sized companies.

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22 of September, 2015Research
Online articles on debt queues – frequency and context

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 IEER. In our database there are 607 articles from 2002 or 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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10 of September, 2015Research
Expected economic effects of the climatic change in Hungary, 2020-2040

The brief analysis of the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER) investigates the diverse economic impacts of climate change, and besides that it also focuses on the description of the expectable effects on the Hungarian economy.

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8 of September, 2015Research
Results of the IEER SME Outlook Survey July 2015

The results of the latest IEER SME Outlook business climate survey reveal a less favourable economic condition compared to the previous quarter: the Business Climate Index decreased from 23 to 16 points. This value is the same that the one measured in January (16 points) and a bit lower than the one in July 2014 (18 points). The Uncertainty Index is at a current level of 35 points, which is lower than in the previous quarter (it was 38 points in April 2015), and is equal to the value measured in the preceding quarter. The value of the Uncertainty Index indicates that the current trend is not uniform within the private sector, and that it will continue to be confined to one part of the economy and will not be felt by all small and medium sized companies.

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23 of July, 2015Research
Where do I want to continue my studies? The further education plans of students from the best national high schools - 2015

Only few of the Hungarian high school students intend to attend undergraduate programmes abroad, although their numbers show a growing trend in recent years. This is what IEER research examining the intentions of continuing education reveals, in addition to the fact that the Hungarian school system is unable to overcome the disadvantages caused by family background, that is, promote social mobility. Based on the 2013 National Skills Assessment the best national high schools receive only a very small proportion of students whose father has a low level of education or low labour market status. Our results also suggest that at the post-secondary level the education system reinforces existing inequalities. This can be concluded from the fact that the ratio of students who apply to the prestigious universities in Budapest is significantly lower in the lagging northern and lowland regions (even in the best high schools of these areas) than in the region of Central Hungary. The study was based on 770 responses conducted among the graduate students of thirty Hungarian public high schools, which were the best within their region according to the 2013 National Skills Assessment.

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3 of June, 2015Research
Data on the employment of graduates

Our analysis presents graduates and their socio-economic role and labour market situation based on facts from several researches and correlations that followed from the data. With this we would like to help individuals, institutes and policymakers. The overview is a continuation, the actualization of certain points, and extension of a similar study published two years ago by the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER).

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26 of May, 2015Research
The business climate of Hungarian enterprises continued to improve Results of the IEER Quarterly Business Climate Survey

The results of the latest quarterly business climate survey reveal a more favourable economic condition compared to the previous quarter: the IEER Quarterly Business Climate Index increased from 19 to 24points. This is the highest level since the beginning of the research (January 2010). The Uncertainty Index is at a current level of 39 points, which is higher than in the previous quarter (it was 35 points in January 2015), this indicates the growth of uncertainty. The current level of 39 points is higher than one year before (it was 36 points in April 2014). In addition, the value of the Uncertainty Index indicates that the current trend is not uniform within the private sector, and that the recovery will continue to be confined to one part of the economy and will not be felt by all companies.

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