Public work means dead end for most in Hungary

According to nepszava.hu, public work only improves the statistics of unemployment in most of the problematic counties. This is because only a few can break out and find their way back to the job market. Nevertheless, in the Eastern part of the country public work created 90% of the new workplaces.

Public work: least efficient but easiest to communicate

In fact, the second Orbán-government decided to create public work programs after their landslide victory in 2010. They said then that they would like to help unemployed people to find their way back to the job market. According to Menedzsment Fórum, the market needed central help then because of the 2008/2009 financial depression. However, among the available governmental means

public work was the least effective.

At the same time, of course, this is the way by which an improvement in statistics can be reached in the shortest time possible.

According to the original plans, public work programs should have helped unemployed people to get back to the job market. However, later it became evident that such programs are just traps for most of them. Since they have to work eight hours per day

they have only limited time to find another job.

As a result, it is not surprising that based on the official statistics, only 13-15% of the former public workers can successfully find a job in the market.