Labour market resilience, bottlenecks and spatial mobility in Croatia

Peter Gladoic Hakansson () and Predrag Bejaković
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Peter Gladoic Hakansson: Malmö University, Malmö

Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2020, vol. 11(2), 5-25

Abstract: After the Great Recession, unemployment rose quickly. During 2013-2014, Croatia registered unemployment rates above 17%, which were way over the EU 28 average. Today, Croatia experiences bottlenecks on the labour market: job vacancies are increasingly lacking suitably skilled candidates. Thus, the Croatian labour market adapts poorly to both recession and the booming economy; in other words, the Croatian labour market has a low resilience. An economy with a high labour market resilience can benefit from a booming economy, while an economy in the opposite situation faces wage inflation and loss of competitiveness. This article aims to analyse and discuss the role of

Keywords: labour market; labour force mismatch; Croatia; bottleneck occupations; spatial mobility; labour market resilience. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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