“Influence of Education and Training Systems on Participation of Young People in Labour Market of CEE Economies. A Comparison of Poland and Slovenia”

(also available as CERGE-EI Conference, Prague; e in II Conference on: An enterprise odyssey: building competitive advantages [2004, Compact disc edition], Graduate School of Economics and Business, Zagreb

The Labour Market in Macedonia: A Labour Demand Analysis

This paper examines the labour market in Macedonia, a country with the highest unemployment rate in Europe. I describe labour market institutions and policies during the transition. I also examine job creation and job destruction using firm-level data and I estimate short-term and long-term elasticities of the labour demand. The analysis shows that there are regulatory barriers to the labour market flexibility. I can also conclude that the privatization of socially owned enterprises has failed to promote job creation. Nevertheless, labour market problems seem to stem from factors other than substantial sluggishness of firms in adjusting employment to variations in wages. Copyright 2008 The Author. Journal compilation CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008.