1987. Különkiadvány, 1987.10.01 / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

*■- The average duration of unemployment depends on labor*a territorial mobility. It is conmon knovledge that primarily the shortage of available housing prevents vorkers írom moving. The atate could offer taz incent ives to enterprises that help név employees nőve cloae to their vorkplace.- Labor mobility is hampered from the outset by the fact that jobseekers arriving in the city from the provinces have no piacé to atay. Temporary bunkhouses ought to be set up to accomodate them. The police should nőt be permitted to harass the inmates of such bunkhouses merely becsüse there is no piacé of employment entered [on their personal identification card].- He must realize that it vould hardly be possible to retrain the masses of uneducated and unskilled labor. The institution of public vorks can be only a temporary solution in their case. Hovever, the folloving must be noted:

(1) An offer of vork on a public vorks project counts as a job offer only if it meets the provisions of the decree on assistance fór vorkers seeking név employment; if the offer is less favorable, its rejection cannot serve as reason fór terminating the vorker'a unemployment compensation. (2) As a rule, the pay on public vorks projects cannot be lover than vhat the enterprises customarily pay fór the same type of vork. (3) Work on a public vorks project counts in the accrued years of service on vhich the pension is based. (4) Workers on public vorks project6 must alsó be guaranteed the right to organize fór the repre6entation of their interests. (5) Work on public vorks projects must be strictly voluntary. To violate the principle of voluntary participation, to threaten anyone refusing to volunteer should constitute a criminal offense.

4.5 Tax Equity

Personal income taz and value-added taz could make our taz system more modern and easier to administer. If these tazes are combined vith a competition-neutral system of tazing the economy's players, and vith curtailing the Central government's rigging of prices and vages, the administration's opportunity to disrupt the markét processes could be narroved. The név taz system's objective, hovever, cannot be to raÍ6e more revenue, at the population's ezpense. Society vili find the tax reform acceptable only if the folloving conditions are met:- The vay in vhich tazes are levied and spent is open to public scrutiny.- The 6ystem provides equal opportunity fór the organizations under various forms of ovnership, and among vorkers vho fali under different legal classifications.- Sharing of the public burden is better balanced, and equitable tazes are imposed on incomes that leave no audit trails (or are difficult to trace).- The poor are spared.- Voluntary donations to charities, and to cultural or scientific cauee6, are deductible.

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