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In 2018, more than 1.5 times more foreign employees arrived in Hungary to work. Will this be the solution to the labour shortage the whole country is suffering from?
According to new statistics, mfor.hu reports that the government did not generally support the idea that foreigners should fill the empty workplaces in the Hungarian economy. However, as a temporary solution, it encouraged Ukrainians to come to Hungary in the case of skills shortages. In the framework of the program, 5,000 Ukrainians came to work in the country. Whether this program was so successful or companies could recruit foreign workforce successfully is yet to be decided. However, as a matter of fact, foreigners started to come to work in the country in vast numbers.
According to data of the Immigration and Asylum Office (BÁH), in 2018, half of those who got a residence permit came to Hungary to work. This means
60,931 from the altogether 111,279 foreigners.
Taking into consideration data from the previous year, this is a drastic increase. In 2017, there were only 58,923 people who received a residence permit, and only 24,539 of them came to the country to work.
Interestingly, the proportional rise in the number of those who came because of “further residential goals” was even higher since, in 2017,
Hungary’s population dropped by over 70,000 last year. About 40,000 was due to deaths exciding births bot another 30,000+ was due to emigration, mostly people moving to Western Europe (Austria, Germany, UK) for higher wages. Some predict that by 2050 Hungary’s population may decline to as low as 6,000,000. This will be a disaster for both the economy and national security
I would like to have names of some recruiting agencies or companies that hire workers from NON-EU countries