This paper analyzes the mutual dependence of the labor market and the population, since the supply of the labor force depends on population size and its structure. The demographic aspects of the ...labor market are especially analyzed and it is shown that the supply of the labor force does not depend only on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the population but that the mutual dependence of the labor market and demographic factors are much more complex and multiply expressive. An analysis of the key trends on the labor market presented in this paper indicates that the global economy requires an increasingly flexible labor force. In that sense, the forecasts of numerous economists and sociologists are based on the conviction that more and more people in future will become workers with a portfolio. They will posses a certain number of skills and qualifications which they will use to transfer from one job on to another during their working life. A continuous profession, namely a steady career, in today's sense of the word, will only a relatively small number of people have. It all goes in favor of the theory that having a 'job for your whole working life' is becoming a thing of the past. In this paper it is further concluded that for tracing the path for an efficient labor market, it should be considered that, during the nineties of the last century, there has been an increase in poverty and a change in population structure, not only because of a large inflow of refugees and internally displaced persons, but due to emigration of the younger population and an increase of the old, ill and dependant persons. All these changes greatly influenced the supply of the labor force, in a quantitative and qualitative way, and thus the strategy for increasing employment should be adjusted. The rapid expansion of the underground-informal economy must be added to all this, which grew rapidly in the nineties of the last century, naturally to the detriment of the formal sector. This paper especially stresses that the economic crisis has large unfavorable consequences on our labor market. The estimation of numerous experts indicate that after the economic recovery and end of the economic crisis, unemployment will still be very high and that the recovery of the labor market will be the slowest, namely that the effects of the economic recovery will reflect the slowest on the labor market, namely employment increase. For this reason it will be necessary to stimulate the reformative processes of the labor market so as to increase its efficiency and thus create conditions to rationally engage the large working potential of Serbia's population, which is one of the key prerequisites for larger economic growth and development.
This paper analyzes the mutual dependence of the labor market and the population, since the supply of the labor force depends on population size and its structure. The demographic aspects of the ...labor market are especially analyzed and it is shown that the supply of the labor force does not depend only on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the population but that the mutual dependence of the labor market and demographic factors are much more complex and multiply expressive. An analysis of the key trends on the labor market presented in this paper indicates that the global economy requires an increasingly flexible labor force. In that sense, the forecasts of numerous economists and sociologists are based on the conviction that more and more people in future will become workers with a portfolio. They will posses a certain number of skills and qualifications which they will use to transfer from one job on to another during their working life. A continuous profession, namely a steady career, in today’s sense of the word, will only a relatively small number of people have. It all goes in favor of the theory that having a "job for your whole working life" is becoming a thing of the past. In this paper it is further concluded that for tracing the path for an efficient labor market, it should be considered that, during the nineties of the last century, there has been an increase in poverty and a change in population structure, not only because of a large inflow of refugees and internally displaced persons, but due to emigration of the younger population and an increase of the old, ill and dependent persons. All these changes greatly influenced the supply of the labor force, in a quantitative and qualitative way, and thus the strategy for increasing employment should be adjusted. The rapid expansion of the underground-informal economy must be added to all this, which grew rapidly in the nineties of the last century, naturally to the detriment of the formal sector. This paper especially stresses that the economic crisis has large unfavorable consequences on our labor market. The estimation of numerous experts indicate that after the economic recovery and end of the economic crisis, unemployment will still be very high and that the recovery of the labor market will be the slowest, namely that the effects of the economic recovery will reflect the slowest on the labor market, namely employment increase. For this reason it will be necessary to stimulate the reformative processes of the labor market so as to increase its efficiency and thus create conditions to rationally engage the large working potential of Serbia’s population, which is one of the key prerequisites for larger economic growth and development.
True democratisation of the property relations in Serbia hasn’t yet occurred because one form of the autocratic management of the social reproduction, concealed by the formal self-management, was ...replaced by the another form of the autocratic management, concealed by the multiparty parliamentarism. Although all parties in Serbia plead for democracy, both private and state property are being put in the middle of their programme orientations. None of the parties gives great significance to the shareholding and cooperative management of the employees. In the programme documents most of the parties they are hardly mentioned. The protagonists of the everyday political campaign for privatization and absolutization of the monopolistic forms of private and state property are those forces that already own such ownership or tend to get their hands on it as soon as possible. The aim of the monopoly of ownership comes from the aim of the monopoly of power and vice versa. Great private wealth in contrary to the mass poverty is indispensable condition of both gaining and keeping of the conquered power over the disempowered masses. The aims of the “new elite” for reprivatisation, i.e., for the keeping of their power is in correlation with the difficult economic situation, which is closer to the autocratic than to the democratic aims, and the absence of the organised democratic movement with the alternative – democratic aims. If there have been organised democratic forces, the property transformation would have had as its goal the enrichment of the entire nation, and not only individuals, and it would surely had gone into the direction of the socialisation of the private ownership, which took place in the developed countries a long time ago. The democratisation of the property relations and political institutions is indispensable condition of the integration of Serbia into the world community. The integration of the national communities into the world community is actually taking place in confrontation against the autocratic tendencies in both national and international extent. In the struggle for such integration, the progressive forces of Serbia need to be connected with the progressive forces in the world, because the resistance it comes across can only be broken with the joint forces.
Whether the belated privatisation in Serbia will be more or less successful depends on the transparency of the new model; that is, the range of potential threats of corruption which the forthcoming ...privatisation hides under its wings. Before we try to answer the question as to whether the new model is sufficiently transparent and efficient, we will reconsider the mutual dependence of certain methods of privatisation and corruption, based on the previous experiences of privatisation in post-communist countries. In addition, we will call attention to the suitability of certain solutions to this privatisation model from the aspects of fairness and equality.
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