„Kiút” Programme and public employment in a small settlement near Miskolc

Abstract

Low employment, especially the low employment of the Roma and the difficulties of creating new workplaces are the hardest problems of the Northern Hungarian region. There have been several intiatives to find the solution for them. We deal with the realisation and the experiences of two of them: the public employment based on local municipalities and the microcredit programme that promotes self employment. The elements of the conclusions drawn by conducting interviews and by personal experiences highlight the importance of the general specificities and the imperfections to be solved of the system.