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Permanent State Secretary of the Prime Minister, Hungary
1. Causes of vulnerability
• lack of
= job-searching knowledge,
=work experience,
=professional skills,
• personal characteristics
=disability,
=age,
=family duties,
=criminal record etc.
2. Types of vulnerable groups
• young, school-leavers, drop-outs,
• rural migrants,
• ethnic minorities, disabled workers,
• workers dismissed by mass lay-offs etc.
3. Approaches to assist the vulnerable groups
• General
=employment offices,
=job-exchange, counselling,
=short term job-search training
• Targeted
4. Targeted employment promotion measures
• means in order to facilitate job search
=special job search training
=job-clubs,
=intensive job-search,
=tutoring.
• means in order to give work-experience
=public (relief) work,
=subsidised work in the open labour market,
=”third economy” jobs.
• training and retraining schemes
=formal training courses
=on the job training
• Complex programmes
=mixing of employment promotion measures
=special programmes targeted on certain vulnerable groups
5. Motivation
• for the unemployed persons
=personal attention,
=lengthening of the unemployment benefit period,
=lump-sum payment to the successful jobseekers.
• for the employers
= financial subsidies,
=tutoring
• For the employment offices
=allocation of the funds by virtue,
by proper use of the money,
by effectiveness.
6. What did work?
• means facilitating job-search, first of all job-clubs,
• subsidised employment in the competitive sector
• on the job training,
• complex programmes, with individualised assistance. 7. What brought semi-results
• public relief work,
• -formal training 8. Dangers
• creaming,
• dead weight costs,
• “revolving door”, |
