Sociology and Space, No. 107-108, 1990.
Original scientific paper
Demographic aspects of employment in Croatia
Predrag Bejaković
Abstract
Many economic and social factors
influence the process of
employment. The influence of
demographic factors is indirect
because their effect can primarily
be felt in the formation of the
labour force, i.e. on the side of
supply, whereas their influence on
demand can only be felt through
a distant feedback process.
This makes them very
difficult to isolate and it is
almost impossible to uantify
their participation in the effects
created by all the factors together.
At the same time, demographic
changes themselves are the result
of many social and economic
processes and it is difficult to
differentiate those that are
»purely« demographic from those
that are the result of economic
and social development.
In Yugoslavia demographic
factors are doubtlessly important,
but other elements have a stronger
influence on the increase of
employment and unemployment
than demographic factors
themselves. Today, for example,
unemployment is a far greater
problem (1, 172, 964 unemployed
at the end of 1988) in spite of the
smaller population increase than it
was in the fifties, when the
population increase was great but
there were less unemployed
(45,000).
Furthermore, the postwar
babyboom resulted, in
approximately the mid-sixties,
in a great increase of unemployment
and an economy of external
migration. This, however, was not
only the result of the great natural
increase of labour supply, but also
the result of the restrictive
measures of the economic reform
which decreased the employment
rate at the same time.
This article presents basic
demographic characteristics and
their connection with employment.
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Hrčak ID:
119722
URI
Publication date:
8.6.1990.
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