After the change of the political system, at the beginning of the 90’s, the territorial differences in Hungary deepened obviously. Approximately 1.5 millions jobs were terminated, the production in the former industrial centres declined, and the reorganization of the economical system started....

A nemzetközi migráció hosszú időre visszatekintő folyamat, az emberek határokon átnyúló vándorlása azonban a globalizálódó világunkban egyre nagyobb méreteket ölt. Vizsgálatunk tárgya e tekintetben az európai kontinensre, azon belül is elsősorban Magyarországra szűkült....

The article makes an attempt to answer the question, which of the development approaches of rural areas might be better: the one based on tradition, or perhaps the one, which is related with innovations. The conducted studies indicate that rural areas are strongly diversified. Various types of...

Main objective of the paper is to discover Hungary’s rural areas suffering from agricultural employment crisis and to compare them to the spatial inequalities, examining the development possibilities and the adaptability to new economic and social processes. The actuality of this objective has...

According to the previous EU reports about Hungary: "the officially acknowledged 12 minorities integrated into the Hungarian society, the situation of the Hungarian gypsy minority remains difficult. The territorial layout of the gypsy population is more or less matched by the rural areas, where...

Although many times the new values of rural category has been emphasized in the literature, rural areas show significant disadvantages in general. As a main reason, in Hungary - partly due to the political and economical transition - the role of agriculture in employment has been notably...

The main statement of the essay is that these days the rigid frames of the classical social class–identity are fading. In relation with profit and labour market, post–modern dimensions have appears (common values, and cultural medium) and the creative social class, which is deeply rooted in...

living standard, quality of life, liveability, North-East Hungary, regional differences, questionnaire survey

Individual expectations of the rural young people regarding their future have a great impact on the survival and economical development of the Hungarian rural communities from Romania. This paper tries to answer questions such as: will young ethnic Hungarians facing the first and decisive step...

In present paper presenting the regional differences of the Hungarian labor market on the basis of individual survey, data collecting, and the statistics from the State Labor office was analyzed by the author. Also, The trends in the rate of unemployment and its structure in the past 13 years...