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Bálint Menyhért

I am excited to be part of this innovative project. I hope that policymakers and academics alike will continue to rely on World of Labor as a reliable source of information to better understand the complexities of labour markets on a wide range of policy issues.

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Research interest

Applied microeconomics, labor markets, social policy, income and poverty measurement, economic history

Website

https://sites.google.com/site/balintmenyhert/

Past positions

Short-term Consultant at the Development Research Group of the World Bank (March – June 2024); Research Fellow at the Directorate for Fair and Sustainable Economy of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) (Nov 2017 – Nov 2023), Research Assistant at the Division for Employment Analysis and Policy, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Dec 2013 – Nov 2015)

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, Central Eropean University (2017)

Selected publications

  • "The last thing on your mind: Recall bias in EU income measurement." Review of Income and Wealth 71:3 (2025): e70030.

  • "Measuring and Monitoring Absolute Poverty in the European Union." Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (with Z. Cseres-Gergely, V. Kvedaras, B. Mina, F. Pericoli, and S. Zec).

  • "Absolute povery measurement with minimum food needs: A new inverse method for advanced economies." Social Indicators Research 174 (2024): 313–351.

  • "Energy poverty in the European Union. The art of kaleidoscopic measurement." Energy Policy 190 (2024): 114160.

  • "The Resilience of EU Member States to the Financial and Economic Crisis." Social Indicators Research 148 (2020): 569-598 (with L. Alessi, P. Benczur, F. Campolongo, J. Cariboni, A. R. Manca, and A. Pagano).

article(s)

  • The labor market in Hungary, 2000-2025

    Employment and wages are on a spectacular rise but growing inequalities, exclusion, and labor market segmentation call for new policy approaches

    Bálint Menyhért, July 2025
    In the early 2000s, Hungary’s employment rate in the working-age population was below 60%. That is now a distant memory, as labor force participation is among the highest in the EU, unemployment is consistently low, and the purchasing power of wages keeps growing at a high rate. While undoubtedly a success story, it is also a cautionary tale of coerced activation, labor market segmentation, rising inequalities, declining social mobility, and strained employment relations.
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