Descriptive research, using secondary analysis of national trends in employment, unemployment, inactivity rates, wages, structure of employment and employment of disadvantaged groups in Hungary. Special aspects of the analysis are the gender, educational level and regional differences in the employment structure in Hungary. The research aims to distil trends through a 10 year period. It gives comparisons with EU member state and EU averages.

The EU regulates the planning process of certain policies in the Member States. The analysis of the employment and human resource situation in Hungary has been used at the creation of the National Development Concept and the National Development Plan for the 2007-2013 planning period.

The analysis uses the data from the National Statistical Office for employment, unemployment rates, for creating cross-sectional comparisons by gender, age and educational attainment. For regional analysis it uses data from the National Employment Agency. The advantage of the analysis is that it uses yearly data from 1992 to 2003 so the main downward and recovering periods can be traced. For European comparison data from the Eurostat Office has been used. It also gives a compact summary of the development in employment policies during these very years.

The EU regulates the planning process of certain policies in the Member States. The analysis of the employment and human resource situation in Hungary has been used in the National Development Concept and the National Development Plan for the 2007-2013 planning period.

At the beginning of the 1990s the Hungarian labour market can be described with the sudden drop in the employment and activity rates, the sharp increase in unemployment and the rearrangement of labour between main employment sectors and occupations. Together with these tendencies the institutional and legal footing of employment policy were established. This helped to overcome the social tensions caused by the mass unemployment experienced during the transition to market economy.
The lasting problems of the labour market are: low employment rate, high inactivity rate, between and within region differences in the labour market, weak geographical mobility of the labour force.
Due to the deceleration of the economy the employment level is stagnating which makes it rather difficult for new comers, especially the young to enter the labour market.

Active Society Working Group (Aktiv Tarsadalom Munkacsoport)
Hungary

01/01/2004

31/12/2005

Active Society Working Group (Aktiv Tarsadalom Munkacsoport)

research

Urban Policy > Economy knowledge & employment > Urban economy

Employment