EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE AND LABOR MARKET EXPECTATIONS IN THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAIN REGION

Abstract

As a result of the processes of Hungarian economy and society the increase in territorial differences is noticeable in the last few years. The changes in society's status, the rate of increase and the level of development can be tracked for example in the diverse variation of labor market. In our study we would like to demonstrate the typical processes of labor market based on the time scale 2000-2007, and we also want to reveal the root causes of the change in unemployment rate. The source of data is a regular, representative labor-survey by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office based on interviewing people, as well as registration on place-hunters by the Employment and Social Office together with the summary of governmental subsidy. For trend determination, except for data extrapolation a new approach is mentioned as well. As a further research the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) seems applicable for forecasting the labor market changes.