1. The institutions and resources of the Hungarian employment policy
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3. 1. The employment situation after the fall of socialism
loss of old markets and gradually increasing
uncertainty,
- full employment an unrealistic promise,
- the number of the "hidden unemployed" grew
significantly,
expectations toward „privatization” and
restructuring of the economy was extremely
high,
employment seemed to be unmanageable

4. 2. The emergence of unemployment
the number of job-seekers registered at
employment agencies since 1987
economy, companies and institutions employed
many more people than they actually needed
hidden unemployment, "unemployment within
he gates.„
to criminalize people who had lost their jobs
the positive "job-seeker" and the negative "work-
shy„
the first unemployment benefit was first granted
in 1989

6. Employment rates in some countries
in the age group of 15 to 64
Country
2000
2005
2010
Czech Republic
65.2
64.8
65.0
Estonia
61.0
64.2
Poland
55,0
53.0
59.3
Slovakia
56.8
57.7
58.8
Hungary
56.0
56.9
55.4
Source: OECD, StatExtracts,

7. The structure of unemployment
unemployment occurs more frequently with a
low level of schooling,
-men's unemployment rate has increased compared to
that of women's,
high unemployment rate by young people,
high rate of long-term unemployment -

11. 3. Managing unemployment: the system of labour market institutions
the municipal councils played the role since 1950s by the organizing labor force recruitment,
to develop the formerly existing labour force management activity into a service was made in the early 80s,
a uniform system was first created by ÁBMH (1985),
by the end of 1988, 262 out of the former 479 employment offices operated within the framework of the service, including 20 county offices and a total of 36 regional offices in 11 counties employing about 220 people.
in the second half of the 80s the network of service offices already dealt each year with 200,000 job-seekers

12. Managing unemployment: the system of labour market instruments
1985 "re-training support„
1986 extension of the period of notice and job-seeking benefit
1987 the possibility of early retirement
1987 public employment program
1988 Employment Fund was established with the aim to support an increasing number of active labour market measures,

13. Managing unemployment: the system of passive measure
the first unemployment benefit was granted on January 1, 1989,
Act IV of 1991 on the promotion of employment and unemployment benefit
the period of provision was gradually decreased in the past 20 years,
the duration of the originally 24 month long unemployment benefit is only 3 months (90 days) since September 1, 2011.
1993 means-tested social benefit
by  % of the registered unemployed were not entitled to any kind of passive welfare provision – neither unemployment nor social benefits.

14. Managing unemployment: the system of active measure
from the middle of the 70s to the middle of the 80s: reorganization of the training system without any other social welfare services,
the earliest and most widely used active measure is the public employment programms
more than 2/3 of all resources available for the financing of active measures were used for these three active measures during the past few years.

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