Historical Overview of the Hungarian Labour Market

Abstract

The Central Eastern economy went into a deep crisis after 1990. It became obvious that the structure of the economy built during the socialist era was not competitive enough to join the world economy. The changes after 1989 were accompanied by business closures, and high and continuous unemployment. As a consequence, the standard of living decreased and social differences started to grow. Public opinion had to face what previously had been unknown: unemployment. This term became for many a concept with which "one has to live together". The objective of this study is to introduce the informedness of the adult Hungarian population as to the current situation of the Hungarian labour market, 20 years after the appearance of unemployment. The aim of the investigation was to map whether current prospective employees have enough information to manage themselves on the labour market and whether it is necessary to make up for this lack of knowledge during their school years. The investigation, based on 300 filled in questionnaires, reveals that the knowledge of adults is satisfactory as regards the labour market and employment policy, but on some questions, their knowledge is incomplete or incorrect.

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“…In the current system, monthly an average of 200-220,000 and yearly an average of 355,000 public employees are involved in the programme. The distribution of affected people is rather unequal, considering the regional distribution of unemployment (the higher the unemployment, the more people are involved in public employment) (Cseh Papp, Csapóné Riskó, 2014).…”