OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies: Serbia 2008
Subtitle: A Labour Market in Transition
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD reviews of labour market and social policies; OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9789264045811
Subjects: Employment (Economic theory); Social Issues/Migration/Health
Description: To catch up with more advanced economies, Serbia urgently needs to improve the functioning of its labour market. This report reviews labour market trends and the principle challenges to  labour market policy, making a series of recommendations. Despite many reforms, new business growth until now has been far too slow to compensate for job losses elsewhere. Recent reforms of labour law should be followed up by further efforts to improve the climate for business and productive work. Labour regulations must be flexible, but they should also be enforced more consistently. For all this to happen, it is essential that an effective social dialogue can take place and that it encompasses expanding and declining segments of the labour market.
Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: Serbia's Overdue Transition; title: The Institutional Framework for Employment; title: The National Employment Service and its Programmes; title: Rights and Risks.