Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

ATTITUDES TOWARDS LABOUR MARKET
REGULATION IN HUNGARY
active policies than women, while women
are more likely to support the passive policies
than men. The results supported the second
hypotheses.
2.8. Liquidation vs. toleration of illegal
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If the labor market is regulated too rigidly
and the cost of hiring or laying off is too
high while the supervision of the labor market
is weak, some people will be employed
without paying taxes. The issue of illegal
work is extremely relevant in Hungary, as the
main problem is not the high unemployment
rate, but the low activity rate (the number of
legally employed people). With its 53.7%
activity rate among 15-64 year olds, Hungary
is lagging behind the EU members, where the
mean activity rate is 64.5%.
The following question concerns what
people think of illegal work. This question
was measured on a seven degree scale. One
indicates that the respondent strongly agrees
with the following statement: ‘Government
should prevent all illegal work’. Seven means the
respondent strongly agrees with the following
statement: ‘Government should not do anything
against illegal work’. The results of each
questioning session are shown in Table 40.
Table 40. What do people think: government should prevent all illegal
work vs. government should not do anything against illegal work? Measured on a 7 degree scale
1-7 degree
scale %
Government should
prevent all illegal work
(1-3)
The middle of the
scale (4)
Government should not do
anything against
illegal work (5-7)
Mean
In the survey
research
Pre-deliberation
in the small groups
Post-deliberation in
the small groups
61.8% 18.3% 19.8% 2.78
65.4% 20.2% 14.4% 2.61
64.6% 20.4% 15% 2.57
T1 – T2: Statistically not significant change (t=-0.932, p>0.05)
T2 – T3: Statistically not significant change (t=0.292, p>0.05)
The deliberation did not bring any
page 188 significant change in this issue, as
we can see in table 40. In all three
sessions, more than 60% of the people
said that the government should prevent all
illegal work, while less than 20% declared that
the government should not do anything against
illegal work. Table 41 shows which socialdemographic
variables have significant effects
on choosing one of the statements.