People

employment policy, labour market, taxation, social policy, government efficiency

• Co-founder and senior research partner of the Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis (Since 2008 September)
• Head of Economic research division, Ministry of Finance, Hungary (2005-2008)
• Economic analyst, Economic research division, Ministry of Finance, Hungary (2003–2004)
• Associate professor at Corvinus University, Labour economics, Macroeconomics, English for Business, Academic writing (part time, 1994-2010)
• Junior analyst, National Labour Centre (1994-1996)

• European Political Economy, Chevening Fellowship Programme (British Foreign Commonwealth Office) Sussex European Institute
• University of Oxford, D.Phil. in Economics, M.Phil. examinations in Labour Economics and Macroeconomics
• Budapest (presently Corvinus) University of Economics BA and MSc in Economics, Labour Economics and Political Science majors

• Books or babies? The incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women, Journal of Population Economics, April 2020 (with Adamecz-Völgyi)
• Hungary: a case study on improving access to administrative data in a low-trust environment, in Crato and Paruolo. Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019

• Impact of a personalised active labour market programme for persons with disabilities, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2018; 46(Suppl 19): 32–48 (with Adamecz-Völgyi, Lévay and Bördős)
• Recent changes moving Hungary away from the European Social Model, in: Vaughan-Whitehead (ed): The European Social Model in Crisis. Is Europe Losing Its Soul? Edward Elgar, 2015 (with Dorottya Szikra)
• The pros and cons of differentiating the minimum wage in Hungary, in Benczúr, P (ed) In Focus I - Taxes, transfers and labour market, HAS-IE, Budapest (with B. Váradi)
• Job quality in post-socialist accession countries, in: Hurley, Fernandez-Macias, Storrie (eds): Transformation of employment structures in the EU and USA, Palgrave, 2012

• From pensions to public works. Hungarian employment policy from 1990 to 2010, e-book, Budapest Institute and Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), 2012, co-editor, with K. Fazekas

• Hungary: fiscal pressures and a rising resentment against the (idle) poor, in: Clasen and Clegg (eds) Regulating the Risk of Unemployment, Oxford University Press, 2011 (with A. Duman)
• Manka goes to work. Public childcare in the Visegrad countries 1989-2009(ed.) Budapest Institute, Budapest, 2010
• The share of undeclared employment in Hungary, in: Semjén, A - Tóth, I.J (eds.) Hidden economy, HAS-IE, Budapest, pp 84-102 (co-authored with Elek, P., Szabó, B and Szabó, P) (in Hungarian)
• The Welfare system: how much, where, and how to spend, Demos, December 2008 (in Hungarian)
• Employment, institutions and employment policy, in: Social Report, TÁRKI 2008, pp 257-289 (in Hungarian)
• Theories of optimal taxation and the possibilities of empirical measurement, Public Finance Quarterly 2008(3), pp 449-458, with Péter Elek
• Can employment increase without GDP growth? In: Esély, 2008, 19(2) pp 15-25 (in Hungarian)
• The efficiency of the Hungarian tax system, Working Papers in Public FinanceNo. 21. April 2008, With Péter Bakos.
• In focus: social welfare and labour supply. In: The Hungarian Labour Market 2007,pp 33–134, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and National Public Foundation for Employment, 2008, co-editor with Zsombor Cseres-Gergely
• Social welfare provision, labour supply effects and policymaking. In: Zs. Cseres-Gergely and Á. Scharle (eds), In focus: social welfare and labour supply, pp 33–49, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and National Public Foundation for Employment, 2008, with Zsombor Cseres-Gergely
• Labour supply effects of unemployment assistance. In: Zs. Cseres-Gergely and Á. Scharle (eds), In focus: social welfare and labour supply, pp 75-86, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and National Public Foundation for Employment, 2008,. with Réka Firle and Péter András Szabó
• A labor market explanation for the rise in disability claims. In: Zs. Cseres-Gergely and Á. Scharle (eds) In focus: social welfare and labour supply, pp 33–49, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and National Public Foundation for Employment, 2008.
• Evidence-based social policy: an example of a work incentive programme. In: Zs. Cseres-Gergely and Á. Scharle (eds) In focus: social welfare and labour supply, pp 33–49, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and National Public Foundation for Employment, 2008.
• The effect of welfare provisions on female labour supply in Central and Eastern Europe, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 9, June 2007, 157–174.o.
• The structure of Hungarian public revenues and expenditure, 1991-2004, Közgazdasági szemle, 2006 (53)2, pp. 119-143. with Dóra Benedek, Orsolya Lelkes and Miklós Szabó
• Low participation among older men and disincentive effects of social transfers – the case of Hungary. TÁRKI Social Report 2004, pp 233-246. with Orsolya Lelkes
• Unemployment and family businesses in Hungary, Society and Economy(Budapest University of Economics), 2002, 24(1), pp 101-120
• Learner Autonomy, Cambridge University Press, 2000, with Anita Szabó

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Language skills: fluent English, intermediate French, basic Russian, native Hungarian.