Pavlović, Dejana and Bjelica, Dragan and Domazet, Ivana (2019) What Characteristics in the Youth Labour Market of Serbia Are Likely to Result in Employment? Stanovništvo. ISSN 2217-3986
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Abstract
In stark contrast to certain EU member countries,Serbia faces a high youth unem-ployment rate of over 30% (34.9% in 2016, 32.8% in 2017 and 31% in 2018). This paper provides a logistic regression analysis of what characteristics among youth (15-30 years of age) contribute to the likelihood of their employment in Ser-bia. While youth is internationally defined as being between the ages of 15-24, this paper broadens it to 15-30, as it is defined in Serbia (RS) for the purposes of youth employment/unemploymentand for the country’s “National Youth Strategy from2015 to 2025.” The study was conducted usingmicro data fromthe LabourForce Survey provided on request from the Sta-tistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. The indicators that affect whether a young person will be employed or not are: the fi-nancial background of the participant’s household, earnings, age, gender, and total years of work experience.Theoretically, although it may be anticipated that unem-ployed individuals who have greater work experience find it easier to find a job, em-ployment does seem to automatically gen-erate longer working hours.The results of the research are both practical and scien-tific,as they may not only assist policy-makers in the process of writing strategies on youth employment, but alsobear groundwork for further study.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | COBISS.ID=512590434 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | youth, unemployment rate, Serbia, labour market, logistic regression |
Research Department: | Welfare Economics |
Depositing User: | Jelena Banovic |
Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2019 11:17 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2020 13:26 |
URI: | http://ebooks.ien.bg.ac.rs/id/eprint/1406 |
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