Published 01-05-2018
Keywords
- employment,
- labour market,
- regional differences,
- women
Abstract
This paper analyses the labour market participation of women living in the Northern Great Plain region in Hungary, in the context of global and Hngarian employment trends. The article focuses on the attitude of women living in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, which has the worst economic performance in the region.
In Hungary, the negative impacts of the 2008 financial crisis started to diminish in 2013, as a result current Hungarian employment rate is only slightly behind the EU average. Hungary is characterized by a large regional disparity in terms of employment and unemployment. Within the North-Great Plain region, the indicators of Szabolcs Szatmár-Bereg county are the worst. The unemployment rate is more than twice as high as the national average, the employment rate is 6.5% percentage points lower than the average. At both national and regional level the employment rate of women is far below the employment rate of men.