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» Policies to reduce presistent poverty need improvement
24/09/2009 - News

At the annual conference of the Public Foundation of the Homless, Ágota Scharle presented an overview of the past 20 years of social provisions in Hungary. One of the lessons of this exercise is the mounting evidence that reintegrative services are rather weak. In countries with a comparable poverty rate, the proportion of the persistently poor is much lower than in Hungary, which points to the weakness of measures that would help people to leave poverty.

» Day care capacity and working mothers
18/09/2009 - News

At the international seminar of the Vienna based European Centre, Agota Scharle summarised the findings of two studies on family policy and female labour supply. Both studies point to the scandinavian example as a way to increase maternal employment without reducing fertility through supporting work/family reconciliation.

» A bookreview by BI senior analyst published
05/08/2009 - News

In the 2009 summer issue of Budapesti Könyvszemle (Budapest Review of Books) Budapest Institute's senior researcher Balázs Váradi published a short review of "The Welfare State in Europe and in Hungary" (A jóléti állam Európában és Magyarországon) by Béla Tomka.

» NDA contract to examine regionally differentiated minimum wage
03/08/2009 - News

BI has been contracted to summarise the pros and cons of introducing regional differentiation in the national minimum wage, based on international research and the existing analyses of earlier rises of the Hungarian minimum wage.

» Grant from the Visegrad Fund
15/07/2009 - News

Budapest Institute has won a grant from the International Visegrad Fund to study the evolution of day care services for small children in the four Visegrad countries.

» Part time jobs may help reduce negative side-effects of shorter maternity benefit
22/06/2009 - News

"It may help to increase goverment support for part time jobs and family friendly employment", explained BI expert in a radio interview on a recent government proposal to reduce the lump sum maternity benefit to two years (from three).

» BI reports on human resource development projects of the Regional Operative Programme
15/06/2009 - News

The Institute for Social Policy and Labour has contracted the Budapest Institute to prepare a progress report on the implementation of human resource development and accessibility programmes, based on guidelines set by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour.

» Recent study finds undeclared employment to reach 17%
26/05/2009 - News

"The group of workers most affected by undeclared employment can be rather accurately identified, which may be used in targeting efforts to combat tax fraud," said BI expert in an interview with Népszabadság.

» Raising minimum contributions to cut tax evasion may reduce employment
13/05/2009 - News

ATV invited editors of a recently published book on the hidden economy, along with former tax authority chief Szabolcs Vámosi-Nagy and co-author Ágota Scharle to discuss current trends in tax evasion in Hungary.

» Government should reach deeper into its toolbox of measures
21/04/2009 - News

Two of our partners published a two-part opinion piece on one of the most popular Hungarian news sites, index.hu

They discuss ways in which the government could do its job more effectively.

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