Marginalised groups of rural population

• Published in: Agricultural economics (Praha) 2008-01, Vol.54 (12), p.566-574
• Main Authors: Buchta, S.,Vyskumny Ustav Ekonomiky Polnohospodarstva a Potravinarstva, Bratislava (Slovak Republic), Stulrajter, Z.,Vyskumny Ustav Ekonomiky Polnohospodarstva a Potravinarstva, Bratislava (Slovak Republic)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: agrarian unemployment; AGRICULTURA; AGRICULTURA DE SUBSISTENCIA; Agricultural cooperatives; Agricultural economics; Agricultural industry; agricultural population; AGRICULTURE; AGRICULTURE DE SUBSISTANCE; CHOMAGE; Deprivation; DESEMPLEO; Economic conditions; Economic impact; EMPLEO; EMPLOI; EMPLOYMENT; exclusion; Farms; Farmworkers; Households; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_203; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_2550; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_28713; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_33096; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_4590; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6699; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6705; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6910; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_7485; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_8061; LABOUR MARKET; MAIN D'OEUVRE; MAIN D'OEUVRE SAISONNIERE; MANO DE OBRA; MANPOWER; MARCHE DU TRAVAIL; MERCADO DEL TRABAJO; Mountains; POBLACION RURAL; POPULATION RURALE; REPUBLICA ESLOVACA; REPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE; RURAL AREAS; RURAL POPULATION; Rural populations; seasonal employment; SEASONAL LABOUR; self-supplying (subsistence farms); SLOVAK REPUBLIC; social marginalisation; Subsistence agriculture; SUBSISTENCE FARMING; TRABAJO ESTACIONAL; Typology; UNEMPLOYMENT; ZONAS RURALES; ZONE RURALE
• ISSN: 0139-570X; 1805-9295
• DOI: 10.17221/285-agricecon

The paper deals with the analysis of the typology of unemployed people in agriculture in the Slovak Republic. Approximately 35-40% of people from this unemployment group have already no more chance to be reintegrated into the labour market. The analysis points out the regional occurrence of this type of unemployment (less urbanised sub-mountainous areas, stagnating and backward regions facing various processes of de-industrialisation, etc.) and evaluates its wider socio-economic impacts. After 2000, the fragmentation of employment contracts in the corporative types of farms (agricultural cooperatives and companies) begins to appear in the agricultural sector. The category of seasonal agricultural workers with decreased labour and social protection begins to emerge as well. As a result of the strategy to cope with the situation, a certain self-supplying (subsistence farming) subculture was established in the Slovak rural areas to mitigate the difficult economic conditions of the rural households endangered by income deprivation, including the decreased purchasing power of rural population.