Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence

KTI Seminar

12/08/2016

Lecture:

Deni Mazrekaj (LEER, KU Leuven) & Sofie Cabus (TIER, Maastricht University)
The Labor Market Position of Early Leavers from Education or Training: Are the Prospects Really that Bad?

Abstract: This paper questions the widespread view that having a higher secondary diploma results in better labour market outcomes. Using detailed administrative data from vocational education in the Netherlands, we compare the earnings of high school graduates to the earnings of high school dropouts both immediately upon school leaving as three years later. For this, we exploit an educational policy reform in 2007 in which the compulsory education age was changed from the age of seventeen until the age of eighteen years. Our findings support the claim that obtaining a vocational high school diploma leads to better labour market outcomes in both the short and the medium run. We find that high school graduates enjoy a small wage premium over high school dropouts immediately upon graduation and an even higher wage premium ranging from 6-10 percentage points three years later.

Helyszín: MTA Kutatóház 1112 Budapest Budaörsi út 45. / room 804-807.

International New Ventures in the Visegrad countries - international conference organised by the FDI group

12/12/2016

Program of the international conference of the FDI-group

 

10.00-10.15 Welcome: Miklós Szanyi (vice-director, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Magdolna Sass (head, FDI Group, CERS HAS)

10.15-11.15 Session 1

Dagmar Kokavcova (Matej Bel University, Banska Bysrtica, Slovakia): The changes of deliberation on the internationalization issue

Lucie Meixnerova (Moravian University College Olomouc, Czech Republic): International business in Europe: statistical evaluation of the economic aspects of new ventures in the Czech Republic

11.15-11.30 Coffee-tea

11.30-13.00 Session 2

Miroslaw Jarosinski (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland): Internationalisation Barriers of Polish Firms

Miklós Stocker (Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary): Survival and Growth of International New Ventures

Miklós Kozma (Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary) and Magdolna Sass (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary): Hungarian international new ventures

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Session 3

Tomasz Dorożyński, Janusz Świerkocki (Department of International Trade, University of Lodz): Motives of Poland's OFDI

Jana Vlčková (University of Economics, Prague): GPN in medical technology industry – the case of the Czech Republic and Switzerland

15.00-15.15 Coffee-tea

15.15-16.00

Session 4: Discussion of possible research cooperation and application to funds

Presentations – suggestions on possible areas of cooperation (conference participants)

16.00 Closing of the conference

Helyszín: Budapest XI., Budaörsi út 45. VIII/807. (conference room)