Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on New Trends in Management, Business and Economics
Year: 2023
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The Situation of Public Employment in Small Villages in Hungary
Dr. Katalin Lipták
ABSTRACT:
I started to deal with the public employment program as an instrument of active employment policy in Hungary in the last 9 years (G. Fekete – Lipták, 2014; Lipták, 2020; Lipták et al., 2022), because during my doctoral research and by getting to know the spatial structure of the small villages in my narrow residential environment (Cserehát region) I perceived that the people living in disadvantaged settlements have limited labour market opportunities. In this research I will focus on small villages with less than 500 inhabitants in Hungary. In these settlements, the municipality is very often the only employer and there are almost no job opportunities available other than public employment. In small villages, the distorted demographic age structure, low educational attainment, low income levels, inadequate infrastructure, physical distance from the cities, multi-generational unemployment, often high proportion of Roma inhabitants, make an already difficult and peripheral situation and employment difficult. The aim of this presentation is to analyse public employment program at a deeper level according to their role in the development of small villages and to identify good practices and successful public employment program in social cooperatives implemented by municipalities. I will present the results of a questionnaire survey on the use of public employment as a commonly used employment solution in peripheral areas.
keywords: Hungary, public employment, small villages, questionnaire