The relationship between the state of education and the labour market in Hungary

Csehné Papp, Imola

Keywords: unemployment, employment policy, education system

The most dramatic socio-economic change of the past decade has been the appearance of overt unemployment. Unemployment affected different social strata, national economic sectors and some areas of the country in a differentiated manner.

According to international experience, long-term labour market prognoses attempt to clearly state the mutual effects and interests of employment policy and education policy. In modern society the education system is inseparably connected to other social sub-systems; not only to culture and science, but to economics as well as to the political and public administration systems. This connection means that changes in education directly influence the operation of the other subsystems, including employment policy, and these changes then have repercussions on education. The difficulties of Hungary’s unemployed in finding jobs and the distortion of the training mechanism for labour resources point to an institutional crisis in education. Among the most important tasks connected to this is modernisation of the training system, which, in addition to a more consistent enforcement of compulsory education than at present, is characterised by a school system with a more flexible structure than today’s.

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