Background The importance of cross-border healthcare, medical and health tourism plays a significant role in the European health policy and health management. After dentistry, orthopaedic treatments are the leading motivation for seeking care in Hungary, as patients with rheumatic and motion diseases are drawn to the thermal spas and well-established orthopaedic centres. This paper aims to gain...

Education plays a central role in supporting or impeding social mobility (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1974; Fend, 1980, 2006). The disadvantaged and economic situation of the biggest part Roma minority (not only) Central Eastern Europe is usually seen as main reason for their low educational attainment success. And vice versa: poor results are considered deprivations. Therefore, education lifelong...

This article presents the development of elementary schools supported by Orthodox Church in Transylvania between 1868 and 1921. Until 1918, belonged to Hungary. In it was united with Kingdom Romania. As Hungary a particularly complex state ethnic confessional terms before school system developed under coordination financing churches. The government intended gradually replace them run communitie...

In the last few years, allochthonous mantid species, Hierodula tenuidentata Saussure, 1869 has spread vigorously across Europe. To date, species been recorded in many countries southern and eastern parts of continent, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine. On October 22, 2022, Szeged, a city part Hungar...

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukrain...

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. We exploit the key longitudinal feature of our data to measure and control for preprivatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our estimates are robust to ...