Zsombor Cseres-Gergely IE HAS - Central European Science Day, 5.12.2006, Bratislava

Labour and Educational Economics Departments,

Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Zsombor Cseres-GergelyJunior research fellow, IE-HAS

PhD candidate, CEUzgergely@econ.core.hu

Zsombor Cseres-Gergely IE HAS - Central European Science Day, 5.12.2006, Bratislava

About the Institutehttp://econ.core.hu/english/

• Long established, the Institute of Economics

attracts young scholars and maintains a network

of researchers abroad.

• Strong focus on policy-relevant, fact-based

research, both theoretical and empirical.

• A new development: the Data Store. Cleaned

and organised microdata available to

researchers (also visiting).

Zsombor Cseres-Gergely IE HAS - Central European Science Day, 5.12.2006, Bratislava

Research in Labour and Educational Economics

• Focus: evolution of employment/non-employment,

shadow economy, institutions (pension, child

care), household strategies, formation and the

role of human capital in labour market outcomes.

• Strong empirical orientation.

• Widest selection of results in WP series:

http://econ.core.hu/english/pub/bwp.html

• Yearbook: http://econ.core.hu/english/pub/mt.html

Zsombor Cseres-Gergely IE HAS - Central European Science Day, 5.12.2006, Bratislava

Project plans

• Wide variation in activity rates across Europe

(10% point).

• Why? Institutions? Shadow economy? Skills?

• Building on previous results in cross-country and

individual based research of activity and

subjective well-being.

• A plan of international cooperation in Framework

Programme 7.