Challenges of the labour market and employment in Hungarian agriculture

Kőműves, Zsolt Sándor and Poór, József and Hollósy-Vadász, Gábor and Walter, Virág and Dús, Miklós and Tóth, Katalin and Veresné Valentinyi, Klára and Antalik, Imrich and Széles, Bence and Szabó-Szentgróti, Gábor (2024) Challenges of the labour market and employment in Hungarian agriculture. SELYE E-STUDIES, 15 (1-2). ISSN 1338-1598

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Abstract

During the past decades, a significant number of replacement workers from agriculture in Eastern European countries, including Hungary, have entered the labour market in other sectors (e.g. industry, services, etc.). This situation is now a thing of the past for various reasons. There is a significant shortage of labour in the agricultural sector, which is being filled by companies not only by seasonal work, but also by the employment of foreign workers. In this article, we will first analyse the emerging labour market trends in general and in Hungary from a theoretical and general socio-economic perspective (general employment situation, demographic changes, ageing, new educational trends and robotisation). Based on our previous and recent research, we have developed an analytical model based on which we can examine employment trends in the labour market of agricultural enterprises in Hungary. In the framework of our empirical research, we analysed the causes of labour shortages. We analysed the typical reasons that triggered labour shortages in the agricultural firms studied. In our research, we were able to demonstrate that, based on their size (organisational size), the companies studied use different tools and programmes to address their labour shortages.

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