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Firms' hiring and firing practices are more flexible but this is because "sarariman" jobs are out of fashion and many workers (80% of them, according to the Employment Policy Foundation) prefer casual work with temporary contracts. Workers keep moving, as they always have, among firms and between sectors. But they are still reluctant to relocate, let alone emigrate. The subjective perception of job insecurity is high, even after the most prosperous decade in recent history. Witness the sparse movement of labour among members of the EU, despite the existence, on paper, of a single labour market.

Yet, the numbers in the labour force were very different and reflected the absolute disadvantage of the uneducated, unskilled, semi skilled and even those with only secondary education. Those without education were 20,000 in the labour force, 12,000 among the employed, 8,000 among the unemployed (the employed and unemployed make up the labour force) - and a staggering 84,000 outside the workforce altogether. 6% of women). 5%). The Situation in 8/99 Economic underdevelopment, agrarian over-employment, external shocks and an unrestructured economy led to an increase in both structural and cyclical employment.

November 1997. “Republic of Macedonia – World Bank – Social Support and Technical Assistance Project – Labour Redeployment Program – Semiannual Report – June 1999” by The Privatization 42 Agency of the Republic of Macedonia – Project Coordination Unit – Coordinator: Vladimir Sarac – Skopje, July 31, 1999. ILO Convention no. 1325). 33. “The Consequences of Labour Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data”, by R. Di Tella and R. MacCullouch, Harvard Business School and ZEI, University of Bonn respectively, April 28th, 1999.

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