Labour market policy in the Visegrad countries

MichaäÇ Polakowski

Chapter 31 in Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, 2023, pp 449-462 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter analyses labour market policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia from the early 1990s until 2020. Lacking a legacy of labour market policy before 1989, we argue that policy has subsequently developed in three distinct phases. In the immediate post-transition era, passive compensatory policies predominated, but came under increasing criticism from influential international organisations such as the World Bank. EU accession in the early 2000s saw a turn towards active policies encouraged and financed by the European Social Fund, though often as not these followed a workfarist rather than social investment orientation. This has been reinforced in recent years by the growing electoral success of right-wing populist governments in the region, with the clearest implications for labour market policy in Hungary and Slovakia.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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