scholarly journals Citizens of Serbia in focus of the labour market

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Sukovic
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Mutual Dependence

This paper analyzes the mutual dependence of the labor market and the population, since the supply of the labor force depends on population size and its structure. The demographic aspects of the labor market are especially analyzed and it is shown that the supply of the labor force does not depend only on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the population but that the mutual dependence of the labor market and demographic factors are much more complex and multiply expressive. An analysis of the key trends on the labor market presented in this paper indicates that the global economy requires an increasingly flexible labor force. In that sense, the forecasts of numerous economists and sociologists are based on the conviction that more and more people in future will become workers with a portfolio. They will posses a certain number of skills and qualifications which they will use to transfer from one job on to another during their working life. A continuous profession, namely a steady career, in today's sense of the word, will only a relatively small number of people have. It all goes in favor of the theory that having a 'job for your whole working life' is becoming a thing of the past. In this paper it is further concluded that for tracing the path for an efficient labor market, it should be considered that, during the nineties of the last century, there has been an increase in poverty and a change in population structure, not only because of a large inflow of refugees and internally displaced persons, but due to emigration of the younger population and an increase of the old, ill and dependant persons. All these changes greatly influenced the supply of the labor force, in a quantitative and qualitative way, and thus the strategy for increasing employment should be adjusted. The rapid expansion of the underground-informal economy must be added to all this, which grew rapidly in the nineties of the last century, naturally to the detriment of the formal sector. This paper especially stresses that the economic crisis has large unfavorable consequences on our labor market. The estimation of numerous experts indicate that after the economic recovery and end of the economic crisis, unemployment will still be very high and that the recovery of the labor market will be the slowest, namely that the effects of the economic recovery will reflect the slowest on the labor market, namely employment increase. For this reason it will be necessary to stimulate the reformative processes of the labor market so as to increase its efficiency and thus create conditions to rationally engage the large working potential of Serbia's population, which is one of the key prerequisites for larger economic growth and development.

scholarly journals In the Shadow of the State - the Informal Economy and Informal Economy Labor Force

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Value Added ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
The State ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Tax Policies ◽  
Economic Opportunities

Abstract In this paper, the main focus lies on the informal economy and on work in the shadow. The most influential factors on the informal economy are tax policies and state regulation. The size of the informal economy was decreasing over the period 1999 to 2007, from 34.0% to 31.2% for 161 countries (unweighted average). Furthermore, economic opportunities, taxes and regulations, the general situation on the labor market, and unemployment are crucial for an understanding of the dynamics of the shadow labor force. In contrast with the decrease of the informal economy (value added figures), the informal economy labor force increased for most countries over the period 1999 to 2007.

scholarly journals Changing Structures and Women’s Role as Labor Force

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Gonäs ◽  
Arja Tyrkkö
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Swedish Model ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The 1960S

The objective of this paper is to analyze changes in the development of women’s role as labor force over a 40-year period. This is done by presenting research results that concern the restructuring of the labor market over different time periods. The empirical material is from the 1960s, the heyday of the Swedish model; from the 1980s, the period that economic historians label the third industrial revolution; and from the 1990s, a period labeled the new working life that is covering the reorganization of the public sector. For the first period results from restructuring in the shipyard industry are presented as well as employment outcomes for single individuals. This industry was male dominated with very few women employed, but regional policy measures were implemented to reach a latent female labor force. The second period is covered by a study of closures and cutbacks in different industries in Sweden during 1982–1983. The proportion of women employed in the industries studied was around one third and employment outcomes had a specific gendered pattern. Women did to a lower extent than men get new permanent jobs. Permanent temporariness was introduced as a concept to describe their labor market situation. The recession that one decade later hit both female- and male-dominated sectors is illustrated by a study of the relations between labor market attachment, working life, and family conditions. The material comes from a regional research program based on a questionnaire and on register data on incomes from 1990 to 1999. The paper analyzes several areas related to work and outside of work that indicate a gendered pattern of multidimensional subordination and an increased polarization in terms of both gender and class. In conclusion, the 40 years has been a period of dramatic change in women’s situation as labor force. In times of restructuring they often entered into precarious job situations or unemployment. Women’s double burden proved remarkably resilient when explaining gender differences in employment and working conditions.

THE INFLUENCE OF DIGITALIZATION ON THE GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE LABOR FORCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 298 (5 Part 1) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Anatolii RUMIANTSEV ◽  
Tetiana KOVBYCH ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Professional Transformation

The article considers the main directions of the impact of digitalization on the global professional transformation of the workforce. The main attention is paid to structural problems of employment, labor market reform and its segmentation, consequences of introduction of automatic telephone systems, computer automation of production, processes of interaction of virtual workers, expansion of electronic workplaces, gender tendencies in digitalization of labor force and electronic work tools. Actions to eliminate illegal migration and reduce the share of the informal economy are considered and proposed. In the process of global professional transformation of the labor force, the system of values changes, material things are replaced by intangible ones. Informatization and intellectualization of the economy and social life is becoming a major driver that requires highly educated, highly skilled workers, as well as favorable ways to create favorable conditions for the optimal functioning of the single labor market. After all, the transformation of the labor market in the world depends on the influence of a wide range of factors and is characterized by a number of features. The change in demand for labor is determined by structural changes in national economies, the development of which is largely due to the deepening of globalization processes. Transformational processes in the international labor market and changes in the structure of employment remain little studied, and therefore are quite relevant today. Particular scientific attention needs to be paid to issues that are directly related to the assessment of qualitative changes in the functioning of the labor force and reflect the current international trends in its genesis in the context of digitalization. Theoretical and factual basis of this research is also the peculiarities of regulation and operation of the labor market in the most developed integration group such as the European Union (EU). First of all, the significant increase in the number of normative and legal documents regulating the legal basis for the use of the labor market in the EU countries and aimed at its reform is noteworthy.

Unions and Wage Inequality in Mexico

ILR Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fairris
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Wage Dispersion ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
The Impact

This paper offers empirical evidence on the impact of trade unions on wage inequality in Mexico. The results indicate that unions were a strongly equalizing force affecting the dispersion of wages in 1984, but were only half as effective at reducing wage inequality in 1996. Not only did the unionized percentage of the labor force fall considerably over the period, unions also lost some of their ability to reduce wage dispersion among the workers they continued to represent. Had unions maintained in 1996 the same structural power they possessed in 1984, the rise in wage inequality in the formal sector of the labor market between those years would have been reduced by roughly 11%.

scholarly journals Determinants of women's non-family work in Ghana and Zimbabwe

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kofi D. Benefo ◽  
Vijayan K. Pillai
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Demographic And Health Survey ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Health Survey Data

One objective of this paper is to evaluate the determinants of female non-family work in Africa. Selected labor force participation theories are tested using demographic and health survey data. The traditional kinship-oriented family organization in Africa, along with high fertility, have long been seen as factors that constrain women’s participation in the labor force, particularly in seeking formal sector employment. We use demographic and health survey data from two African countries, Ghana and Zimbabwe. Education emerges as the most important determinant of non-family work. Even if female education levels increase, single women may not gain easy entry into the informal economy managed by kinship-based social networks. A large proportion of these educated women may not find jobs if the formal economy does not expand. Results from Ghana and Zimbabwe are compared.

Implications of higher retirement age for the labor market

2017 ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ivanova ◽  
A. Balaev ◽  
E. Gurvich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Demographic Projections ◽  
The Impact

The paper considers the impact of the increase in retirement age on labor supply and economic growth. Combining own estimates of labor participation and demographic projections by the Rosstat, the authors predict marked fall in the labor force (by 5.6 million persons over 2016-2030). Labor demand is also going down but to a lesser degree. If vigorous measures are not implemented, the labor force shortage will reach 6% of the labor force by the period end, thus restraining economic growth. Even rapid and ambitious increase in the retirement age (by 1 year each year to 65 years for both men and women) can only partially mitigate the adverse consequences of demographic trends.

Peculiarities of Modern Dynamics of the Global Economy

2010 ◽  
pp. 78-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Klinov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Long Waves ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Business Taxation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
China And India ◽  
World Economic

Rates and factors of modern world economic growth and the consequences of rapid expansion of the economies of China and India are analyzed in the article. Modification of business cycles and long waves of economic development are evaluated. The need of reforming business taxation is demonstrated.

Cyclic Economic Dynamics and Deflationary Phenomena: Analysis and Forecasts

2018 ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Руслан Гринберг ◽  
Ruslan Grinberg ◽  
Леонид Гринин ◽  
Leonid Grinin ◽  
Андрей Коротаев ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
Western Economy ◽  
The World

The modern deflationary phenomena in the western and global economy are attributed to the fact that currently it is at the downward phase of the fifth long K-wave. Deflation has always been typical for the depressive periods in economy; presently it also manifests itself as the world economy has turned global, yet it lacks any control mechanisms. The authors suppose that a new economic crisis will break out in the western economy in the second half of 2018–2019 and that the depressive and deflationary trends will continue for another number of years.

The Shadow Society and Its Fictitious Capital

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louçã Francisco ◽  
Ash Michael
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Professional Expertise ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Fictitious Capital ◽  
Equitable Outcomes ◽  
National Economies

The concluding chapter surveys the prospects for more democratic governance of national economies and more equitable outcomes in the global economy. The backdrop for the chapter is the marriage of shadow finance with the conservative governments that have achieved electoral success on the basis of popular dissatisfaction with the response of neoliberal governments to the global economic crisis. The conservative movement and its governments are incoherent and unwilling to address, even in terms of modest reform, the power of finance and its responsibility for inequality and crisis. Effective reform could emerge from the union of professional expertise, whose commitment to technocratic aspects of the neoliberal project may have weakened, with democratic social movements.

scholarly journals Social Security Enrollment as an Indicator of State Fragility and Legitimacy: A Field Experiment in Maghreb Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Walid Merouani ◽  
Claire El Moudden ◽  
Nacer Eddine Hammouda
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Discrete Choice Models ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
State Fragility ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
State Legitimacy

State legitimacy and effectiveness can be observed in the state’s approach to delivering welfare to citizens, thus mitigating social grievances and avoiding conflicts. Social security systems in the Maghreb countries are relatively similar in their architecture and aim to provide social insurance to all the workers in the labor market. However, they suffer from the same main problem: a low rate of enrollment of workers. Many workers (employees and self-employed) work informally without any social security coverage. The issue of whether informal jobs are chosen voluntarily by workers or as a strategy of last resort is controversial. Many authors recognize that the informal sector is heterogeneous and assume that it is made up of (1) workers who voluntarily choose it, and (2) others who are pushed into it because of entry barriers to the formal sector. The former assumption tells us much about state legitimacy/attractiveness, and the latter is used to inform state effectiveness in delivering welfare. Using the Sahwa survey and discrete choice models, this article confirms the heterogeneity of the informal labor market in three Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Furthermore, this article highlights the profiles of workers who voluntarily choose informality, an aspect that is missing from previous studies. Finally, this article proposes policy recommendations in order to extend social security to informal workers and to include them in the formal labor market.

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