Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v1i2.596
Employment Boosting Measures
Nada Kerovec
; Hrvatski zavod za zapošljavanje
Abstract
The basic components of the labour market are: the labour demand, the labour offer and timely, easily accessible information for those who seek employment and the vacant jobs. The lack of coordination between the first two components leads to unemployment on the hand, and to the shortage of employees on the other. In such situation, it is necessary to perform a market deregulation, in order to increase its flexibility. It can partly be achieved by applying different measures to the labour market, which depend on the economy of a particular country and vary in regard to content, intensity, numerosity, the category of the unemployed persons and other similar characteristics. Global experience (particularly in the countries with developed market economies) at creating and accomplishing programmes to boost employment are really very extensive. We can generally say that in periods of high economic activity and thus, low unemployment, such programmes are mainly meant for the so called hard-core unemployed, referring to only a particular category of the unemployed population, for whom employment is very difficult. During recession periods, programmes to encourage employment are usually directed only to certain groups of unemployed people (regarding the age, sex, qualifications, regions etc). Depending on the severity of unemployment with certain socio-demographic, socio-economical or socio-geographical groups of the unemployed population, each particular country directs such programmes of the countries which have had considerable experience in that respect. Since Croatia has been undergoing a very difficult period in various spheres of life not only with regard to unemployment, it is very important to pay particular attention to these ideas, in order to be able to select the most efficient measures that would most adequately respond to the labour market conditions of Croatia.
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29708
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Publication date:
1.2.1994.
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