Keresztes, L. L., & Vámosi, T. (2008). Employment in the small rural settlements of South-Transdanubia. Modern Geográfia, 3(4), 12–24.
The determining processes of the settlement network of Hungary are the concentration of the population in settlement ensembles which are at different urbanization levels, and the growing of the number of tiny villages. Less and less people lives in the steadily growing group of tiny villages (settlements with less than 500 heads), which gives one-third of the whole settlement stock, and the demographic composition and social situation of this population show a declining tendency. It is a serious problem in the regions far from the dynamically developing regions of the country. The aim of this short paper is to give an overview of the situation of the Hungarian tiny villages, mainly of the employment conditions in South-Transdanubian small settlements. We mostly use settlement level statistical datas and we analyse the the available literature to display these problems as the most important challenge for the sustainability of these small villages. In connection with this, the importance of the subsistence of villages with low population and the dangers of continuing the present tendencies would be mentioned additionally.