AmCham's HR Committee invites you to its upcoming event:
Our upcoming roundtable will look at labor shortage from a different, new perspective, with invited guest speakers, János Köllő and István János Tóth, based on a recent study of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The discussion will be moderated by Zsolt Fehér, chairman of the HR Committee.
János Köllő is Senior Research Fellow and Research Director at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest where he has been working since his graduation from Corvinus (then Karl Marx) University of Budapest in 1977. His tenure was only interrupted by scholarships at Collegium Budapest - Institute of Advanced Study (1993-94) and University of Michigan Business School (2003). He is a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn and the William Davidson Institute, Ann Arbor. He has written widely on unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe, demand for human capital, industrial relations and regional inequalities. He consulted in the elaboration of post-communist Hungary's labor market institutions, and has been doing contract work for different Hungarian governmental agencies. He has participated in numerous international research projects sponsored by the Commission of the European Union, ILO, EBRD and the World Bank.
István János Tóth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest where he has been working since 1997. He is graduated at Corvinus (former Karl Marx) University of Budapest in 1984. He is managing director at Research Institute of Economics and Enterprises (part-time). He has written widely on problems of hidden economy, enterprise behaviour, business tendency surveys and economic sociology. He has participated in numerous international research projects sponsored by the Commission of the European Union, USAID, EBRD, World Bank and ICEG.
To read the most recent Munkaerőpiaci Tükör study please click here: http://www.mtakti.hu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mt_2016_hun_11.pdf
To read Index.hu’s article on the study please visit https://index.hu/gazdasag/2018/01/19/munkaeropiaci_tukor_2016_munkaerohiany_fogalma/
Language: The language of the roundtable will be either English or Hungarian, depending on the registrations.
Please RSVP before March 6 at zsofia.juhasz [at] amcham.hu.