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• Training and employment: Information and knowledge flows between training institutions and employers

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  Judit Csoba

  Katalin Ábrahám

  Ilona Nagyné Varga

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  For a region's economy to develop, it is essential to develop integrated forms of operation that manage the available resources efficiently. This is particularly true in a border micro-region with a predominantly small population, where for decades farming has been essentially based on agricultural subsistence and employment opportunities have been limited. Matching the employment and training structure, balancing supply and demand in the training and employment system can also be beneficial for the economic and social development of a disadvantaged micro-region. The development of border micro-regions was seriously handicapped before the change of regime. Small and medium-sized settlements on both sides of the border were depopulated and their inhabitants were ageing. Over the past few years, regional development has been based on local needs and existing resources, resulting in the creation of nearly 2 500 small and medium-sized enterprises in 21 municipalities in the Érmellék sub-region, where the research is located. However, the economic and employment functions of the organisations created can only be developed if the specialist needs of the businesses are met in the right quantity and quality structure.

• Do we have the effect of poverty ethnicisation in the Biharkeresztes micro-region?

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  Győző Bánfalvi

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  At a research in the Biharkeresztes micro-region (conducted via semi-structured interviews) we
  asked family households living in poverty. Roma households were mostly among the respondents.
  We also found that that estimated number of Roma population in the settlements correlated to
  the number of people working in public service. The examination of age structure diagrams at
  the settlements showed that the ones the mayors estimated to have a higher Roma population,
  are the younger settlements. The fact that there can be a causal relationship between these
  phenomena is supported by numerous previous researches (Kemény, 2004; Molnár, 2007). These
  researches pointed out the effect of poverty ethnicisation in Hungary (Ladányi – Szelényi, 2004).
  Furthermore, a research conducted in 2007 at the neighbouring Szabocs-Szatmár-Bereg County
  also confirmed the ethnicisation theory (Fónai et al.). The aim of this study is to examine the
  possibility of poverty ethnicisation at the five settlements of the Biharkeresztes micro-region,
  with the help of the implemented qualitative inquiry, previous researches, and databases from
  CSO and TeIR .