The effects of COVID-19 on labour market and policy making – the 2021 issue of The Hungarian Labour Market

The 2021 issue of The Hungarian Labour Market and its “In Focus” chapter discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market and related areas (e.g. health and education), and the policy measures taken in response. The aim of this volume is to summarise, describe and provide a primary analysis of the evidence gathered during the first three waves of the pandemic.

BI researchers have contributed as authors or co-authors of the following studies:

- in the first, we explore the extent to which the Hungarian welfare system was prepared to deal with the social impacts of the pandemic;

- in the second, we scrutinize - based on individual data - the extent to which the COVID-19 affected youth employment and we analyse what happened to young people who lost their jobs and registered as unemployed during the first wave of the pandemic;

- in the third, we show how Public Employment Services in EU Member States have responded to the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic by taking steps to effectively help the unemployed;

- finally, in the fourth, we summarise the main impacts of the first three waves of the pandemic on mortality and health care system, based on the literature to date.

More information about some of our other work published in previous volumes of The Hungarian Labour Market is available here:               

Young people in education and in the labour market – the 2019 issue of The Hungarian Labour Market

Evidence about the links between health and employment status during COVID-19 – the 2020 issue of The Hungarian Labour Market.

The Hungarian Labour Market 2021 is published by CERS-IE (Centre of Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of Economics), who commissioned BI to author a number of chapters in the book.