eprintid: 4582 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/45/82 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:26 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:23 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:06:26 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Rein, M. creators_name: Friedman, B.L. creators_id: AL1137 title: Enterprise Social Benefit and the Economic Transition in Hungary ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_ecn internal_subjects: iis_mnt divisions: prog_eti abstract: In Hungary as in other East Bloc countries, enterprises have given a variety of nonwage benefits to their workers, sometimes called the "social wage." We explore what has happened to non-wage compensation during the economic transition which began in 1989. During this period, the real wage has fallen, and many aspects of enterprise operations have undergone change. This paper considers three broad questions. (1) How has total compensation and its composition changed during this period of restructuring? Have changes in non-wage compensation offset or reinforced changes in wages and which elements have been increasing, which decreasing? (2) What factors can account for the change? (3) Have enterprise non-wage benefits in fact served social functions in addition to their business functions, and, if so, has the social role of benefits changed during this period? date: 1995-02 date_type: published publisher: WP-95-010 iiasapubid: WP-95-010 price: 10 creators_browse_id: 2325 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria pages: 23 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Rein, M. & Friedman, B.L. (1995). Enterprise Social Benefit and the Economic Transition in Hungary. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-010 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4582/1/WP-95-010.pdf