 SOCIAL CHARACTER OF STUDENT EMPLOYMENT REGULATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIAValentino Kuzelj () Economic Thought and Practice, 2020, vol. 29, issue 2, 513-538 Abstract: Most young people participate in the labour market in some form during their education. It is imperative to define clear goals and concrete policies for securing a decent living standard of students enabling them to fulfil their academic duties and finish their studies. Student employment represents an important source of student income in the Republic of Croatia. At the end of 2018 Croatian legislators passed a new law regulating student work. The main purpose of the bill was an improvement of student standard. Although presented as a social measure, it failed to protect students, treating them as precarious workers. At the same time, low fiscal burden of student work made it more attractive and lucrative compared to the work based on the employment contract, threatening to create labour market disruptions. This paper points out concrete problems in the regulation of student work in the Republic of Croatia and highlights a need for its redefinition to achieve social justice. Keywords: student employment; worker; labour market; taxation; social justice (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:avo:emipdu:v:29:y:2020:i:2:p:513-538 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Economic Thought and Practice is currently edited by Nebojsa Stojcic More articles in Economic Thought and Practice from Department of Economics and Business, University of Dubrovnik Contact information at EDIRC. |
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