Some Experience of the Complex, National Human Resource Development Programmes in the Hungarian Rural Regions

Tésits Róbert, Alpek Levente and Hoványi Gábor
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Tésits Róbert: University of Pécs, Institute of Geography, Hungary
Alpek Levente: University of Pécs, Institute of Geography, Hungary
Hoványi Gábor: University of Pécs, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, Hungary

Eastern European Countryside, 2019, vol. 25, issue 1, 95-119

Abstract: The key objective of this paper is the structural-regional examination of disadvantaged job seekers’ employability in the convergence regions of Hungary. One element of the comparative evaluation of the EU-supported, complex, national employability-enhancing programmes is the exploration of successful and unsuccessful factors and the formulation of recommendations for future projects of this kind. While the evaluation of the previous programme beginning nearly a decade ago was based on document analysis (technical procedures, budget summaries, communications plans, action and progress schedules and reports), in-depth interviews with the employment departments staff provided assistance in the evaluation accomplished five years later. The assessment of interviews was completed by the public, follow-up data about people successfully passing the programme and still being employed half a year after the closing of the programme. This data was the basis for the measurement of regional impact, which necessitated the development of two regional reintegration indicators. The group-specific evaluation pointed to the fact that low-skilled people can be involved with much less efficiency into employability-enhancing programmes. The present study also shows that the expected marginal utility of an employability programme is greater, which is realised in an economic environment driven by labour market demand.

Keywords: low-skilled; human resource development; employability; employment; adult education; Eastern-Europe; Hungary; rural regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.12775/eec.2019.004

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