Messages in Labour Studies – 2025. Under this title, the Labour Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (Magyar Közgazdasági Társaság), in cooperation with the professional portal MunkaugyiSzemle.hu, published the summaries of its last year’s professional events in an electronic publication. In this volume, which has by now traditionally been released at the beginning of the year, summaries of 16 conferences organized by the section are included. The volume can be downloaded by clicking here.
Beyond macroeconomic issues related to the interconnections between the economy and labour, the events addressed, among other topics, cross-border employment; labour market challenges in the film industry and in public administration; as well as the employment situation of vulnerable groups, including young people, mothers with young children, and people of retirement age.
As Gyula Pleschinger, President of the Hungarian Economic Association, emphasizes in the foreword to the volume, employment policy must find answers to both short- and long-term challenges. Territorial inequalities need to be reduced, the most vulnerable groups must be supported, and at the same time the key to the desired economic growth and improved competitiveness lies in the creation of an increasing number of high value-added, innovative jobs in Hungary. The President of the MKT also reminds readers that with the spread of artificial intelligence, the number of jobs requiring specialized AI skills is increasing, and that the most significant challenge facing the labour market stems from demographic trends.
The vast majority of the professional summaries presented go far beyond the mere documentation of individual events, writes the President of the MKT Labour Section and editor of the volume in his foreword. József Bagó highlights that the articles draw attention to the most pressing and debate-generating issues in the world of work, often supplemented by further commentary from participants or the authors themselves. Overall, they therefore reflect a comprehensive picture of the ideas and dilemmas that occupied representatives of this diverse profession in 2025, thereby creating value that extends beyond the work of the section itself.
The publication also includes YouTube and podcast links to the professional conferences and roundtable discussions featured in the volume, so anyone who is interested not only in the summaries but also in what was said at last year’s labour-related events of the Hungarian Economic Association can watch or listen to them with a single click.
The publication titled Messages in Labour Studies 2025 can be freely downloaded at this link (PDF, only in Hungarian).