labour market

22/11/2017

Number of restaurants dwindling, remaining doing well

Around 40,000 people are working in Budapest's restaurants
22/11/2017

Hungary gross wages 13.6 pc in September

The average gross wage in Hungary rose by an annual 13.6 percent to EUR 940
21/11/2017

Ministry confirms HUF 1,418.2 billion deficit at the end of October

"The government's fiscal policy continues to be characterised by predictability and stability,"
21/11/2017

Labour shortage critical in Hungary

Hungary is struggling hard with labour shortage. Especially public traffic and public service companies are in trouble. A solution could be wage union.
18/11/2017

Budapest ranked as 12th most knowledge-intensive capital in Europe

Hungary is doing well in the area of creative professions and IT
18/11/2017

Viktor Orbán: Hungarian model working

Orbán explained that the Hungarian model rested on three "pillars"...
17/11/2017

IT experts needed in Hungary

There is great need for IT experts in Hungary, and English is much more important for them than maths though higher education concentrates on the latter.
16/11/2017

Mobilising 1.8 m inactive Hungarians potential solution to labour shortage

The policies should encourage flexible forms of employment
16/11/2017

Market boom in household energy efficiency?

Household energy efficiency could become a 1,200 billions HUF (EUR 3.84 billions) worth market in Hungary that could help small businesses.
15/11/2017

No shop assistants in Hungary

Labour shortage in Hungary has a brutal effect on businesses, since even the biggest companies cannot find shop assistants despite higher wages.
14/11/2017

Hungary’s health care devastated

Hungary's devastated health care is at the bottom of OECD's lists regarding life expectancy and health care expenses per capita.
13/11/2017

More and more Hungarian students enroll in IT programmes

7,258 students enrolled in IT programmes this year
13/11/2017

Opposition parties vow to oust Orbán government

The Orbán government has over the past seven years kept wages low, destroyed education and health care and sunk deep in corruption - said Bernadett Szél, the prime ministerial candidate of LMP
13/11/2017

Fitch confirms Hungary’s economic achievements

Fitch Ratings revised the outlook on Hungary's Issuer Default Ratings to 'positive' from 'stable'
11/11/2017

Billions of Hungarian forints spent on alcohol

Would you have thought we spend so much on alcohol?
09/11/2017

Top court annuls rule requiring public workers to keep areas around homes tidy

The court said the rule was discriminative and reached into a person's private affairs to an unreasonable extent
07/11/2017

Retail sales climb 5.4 pc in September

The trend was driven by the growth of net wages and the growing confidence index.
06/11/2017

International companies operating in Hungary tend to have long-term plans for the country

"More than two-thirds of some one hundred companies surveyed said that their current business situation was good"
06/11/2017

Hungary-Portugal venture capital fund set to launch

40 percent of the capital generated by the fund should be invested in Hungary
05/11/2017

Socialist MEP outlines plan to help curb emigration

Could the emigration of Hungarians be stopped?