Economic environment and labour market in Pécs
In this region the primacy of Pécs has always been unquestionable. With its more than 160,000 inhabitants it is the most populated city of the region, its economic opportunities are also outstanding, and this is the third biggest cultural centre of the country and also a university city.
Settlement structure determines the differences in development within the region. While cities and the sub-region of Balaton area are developing, the sub-regions along the river Dráva and on the county borders are underdeveloped. The region is divided into twenty four sub-regions out of which eighteen are underprivileged and nine of them are among the most disadvantaged according to EU ranking standards. Consequently almost half of the population of the region (47.5%) live in disadvantaged areas, and among them almost 20% live in the most disadvantaged regions.
The sectoral composition of employment across industrial branches in the region shows that manufacturing employs twenty one percent of jobholders, trade thirteen percent, and education eleven percent. One tenth of employees work in public administration, and nine percent in health care. In the total employment the share of construction is seven percent, agriculture, transport, economic services and estate business each amounts to six percent. Financial institutions take the lowest share, one percent.
The highest number of job-seekers are among shop-assistant, salesmen, almost six thousand people in the region, half of them are available in Baranya county. Second in the total number of job-seekers are the office workers, their number amounts to three thousand, and five hundred. In the regional ranking waiters, masons and metal-workers succeed in decreasing order. These data are valid for Baranya and Tolna county. The following trades take the next places in decreasing order: tailor’s cutter, dressmaker, painter, guard, cook, joiner, car mechanic, electrician, stock-keeper. The number of unskilled workers is more than fifteen thousand. The bottom line of the order is composed of all kinds of guards and truck drivers.
In all three counties of the South-Transdanubian Region, among the jobs reported by the employers the shop-assistants take the lead. More than thousand jobs were advertised for people with this trade, but fewer than in previous years. Next are the metal-workers (593 people), half of them to be hired in Baranya county, in the two other counties on the second place meat-packers and office administrators are offered employment. Tailor’s cutters and dressmakers are the third in the order of most demanded trades, almost five hundred people could be employed, thirty five percent of them in Baranya county. Employment capacity for welders is above four hundred, mainly in Baranya county. Four hundred and twenty masons could be employed, mostly in Somogy county. Four hundred and thirteen jobs for waiters were reported, most of them in Somogy county. The number of all kinds of mechanics to be hired amounts to three hundred. The employment capacity for cooks is the highest in Somogy county. About two hundred jobs are offered for meat-packers, most of them in Tolna county, and for workers of the branch of forestry. Among those jobs that do not require vocational skill unskilled labour is the most demanded with more than fifteen thousand jobs offered, and 1,668 assembly line workers could be employed.
It must be mentioned that some trades that previously had not required vocational training, under the new legislation shall be claimed vocational training certificate. Two of these are worth mentioning here, within the scope of machine-engineering production line operator there are some sub-skill trainings like smt operator and precision production line operator.