Sociology and Space, No. 119-120, 1993.
Original scientific paper
Croatian youth in the European context
Maria Oliveira-Roca
Abstract
In Croatia the number of marriages
among young people has been decreasing
in recent decades. The main demographic
cause is the shrinkage of the pre-marriage
cohort. However, socioeconomic factors,
among them the ever greater economic
dependency of the young, count much
more for the decrease of the number of
young marriages. The expected increase of
the fertility rate during the post-war
compensation period will probably take
place out of the youth cohorts if the
trends of prolonging education, high
unemployment and postponing of
marriages among young people persist.
The positive effects of demographic
trends and of the prolongation of the
years of schooling upon the supply and
demand for young labour force have
almost been completely annulled by the
war and other negative socio-economic
factors that led to the overall
impoverishment of the Croatian society.
Although the number of unemployed
youth is still very big, its share in the
total number of unemployed has
decreased due to massive dismissals due
to bankruptcy, shut downs of firms or
their destruction because of the war. As a
consequence, the alleviation of the
problem of youth unemployment policies
and strategies. All these facts put together
lead to the conclusion that, compared
with the Western European youth, the
probabilities of a substantial improvement
of the socio-economic status of Croatia’s
youth are much smaller, at least in the
near future.
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119775
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Publication date:
11.6.1993.
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