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Subsidizing wages for jobs endangered by the crisis
Country of implementation
Hungary
General short description of the innovation
National Employment FundĄs program: ĽPreserving (Orszúgos Foglalkoztatúsi Alap, OFA Meg?rz?s, 9122; Meg?rz?s 2-9123/2009). The aim of the program is to prevent jobs being shed through a) subsidizing endangered jobs, b) supplementing wages in STWAs, possibly combined with training.
Target group
Total Population
Policy Field
- education
- wage
Type of Policy
- public
Duration of the policy
Sep 2009 - Jan 2010
Scope of innovation
- Scope: temporary
- Budgets: 31.5 million EUR
- Number of intended beneficiaries: Direct: 55000 - Indirect: 106000
- Spatial coverage: national
General description of (intended) objectives and strategies
By subsidizing endangered jobs, supplementing wages and providing trainings the project aimed to protect jobs.
Nature of the innovation-short-term perspective
short term
Type of ideal-typical strategy for the innovation
- typical strategy for the innovation (optional; according to Obinger)-flexicurity
Type of innovation
- retrenchment or expansion of an existing/earlier policy
New outputs
- subsidies/tax-credits
- training schemes
- wages
Clarification of intended mechanisms, outputs and outcomes (optional)
Measures to increase labor demand / Subsidies to employers who maintain existing jobs / Subsidizing wages for jobs endangered by the crisis /
Intended target group
Enterprises affected by crisis
Employers-private institutional actors
: enterprises affected by the crises
Actors involved in policy-making/implementation and/or evaluation
- making/implementation and/or evaluation-agency or national social insurance body
- making/implementation and/or evaluation-central state
- making/implementation and/or evaluation-employees (organised or individual)
- making/implementation and/or evaluation-private for-profit organisations (commercial)
Intended output
- training schemes
- wages
Intended and unintended outcomes
no data available
Clarification of outcomes in terms of impacting resilience and labour market inclusion
Job protection
