scholarly journals Evaluating the Prevalence and Distribution of Unregistered Employment in Kosovo: Lessons from a 2017 Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardiana Gashi ◽  
Colin C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
National Representative Survey

Abstract Despite the growing recognition that unregistered employment remains a common problem both in South-East Europe and well beyond, there has been little evidence available on its prevalence and distribution. This paper contributes to filling the gap, by utilising data from a 2017 large scale national representative survey of 8,533 households in Kosovo. This reveals that 34.6% of all employees are engaged in unregistered employment (i.e., they have no employment contract). A Probit regression analysis reveals significant associations between unregistered employment and individual, household, employer and job-related characteristics. Unregistered employment is significantly more prevalent among men, younger people, single, widowed or divorced, those with fewer years in education, living in rural areas and in larger households. It is also significantly more prevalent among those working in construction and services, part-time employees, with shorter employment durations, lower wages, and those in elementary occupations and craft and related trades. The wider theoretical and policy implications are then discussed.

A case of educational reform from the ground up: Involving ethnic minority parents in the life of the school in South East Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Frost
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
International Teacher

This article explores the challenge of education reform and presents an alternative to dominant approaches. In doing so, it draws on the work of three projects: first, the ‘Advancing Education Quality and Inclusion’ initiative; second, the APREME (Advancing the Participation and Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Education) project which followed it; and third, the International Teacher Leadership project with which these two projects had strong links. The article discusses the large-scale survey of parents and school principals across 10 countries in South East Europe and the follow-up case studies in five of these countries. The focus then shifts to the practical intervention which was based on the idea of non-positional teacher leadership. Reports of all three projects are analysed to support a particular view of education reform led by teachers’ own development initiatives.

scholarly journals SEEIIST: South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Damjanovic
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
East Europe ◽  
East European ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Set Up

The states in South East Europe are joining forces to set up a large-scale competitive research infrastructure – the South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST, https://seeiist.euh). Due to the recent history in South East Europe all scientific and economic activities have very much slowed down. As a consequence this region has suffered ever since from a strong brain drain of the young generation, affecting in particular the best.

scholarly journals Intermediation Efficiency of Banks in South-East Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Valentin Toci ◽  
Iraj Hashi
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Malmquist Index ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
East Europe ◽  
East European ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Efficiency Gap

By employing non-parametric methods, namely Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index, this paper investigates efficiency of banks using a database of almost all banks in four countries in South-East Europe. The superior efficiency of foreignowned banks in intermediation is supported. It is argued that the improvement in efficiency of banks originated from the change in technology rather than scale and technical efficiency, and banks on average have not been able to catch-up with best-performers, thus widening the efficiency gap. The largest sources of inefficiency are found to be cost and scale inefficiencies and lending shortfalls. Because of its peculiarities, Kosovo banking sector is assessed relative to other economies. Findings suggest that despite some improvements, the banking system in Kosovo remained less efficient. A number of policy implications emanate from the findings, aiming at enhancing the intermediation efficiency of banks in the context of South-East European transition.

scholarly journals The role of family social capital in young people’s transition from school to work in Bulgaria

Sociologija ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyka Kovacheva
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School To Work ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Family ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
One Year

Large-scale surveys rate Bulgaria and the whole of South-East Europe as societies poor in both formal and informal social capital. At the same time studies show that families in the region remain closely knit and norms of reciprocity, empathy and support among members of extended families are valued highly. To throw light upon this contradiction the paper presents results from a qualitative research into family support for youth transitions from school to work in Bulgaria conducted in 2002-2003. It uses of data from in-depth interviews with 46 young people one year after graduation from school or university and 34 of their parents. The paper analyses in more detail three case studies representing different patterns of family support. The role of the family remains important under post-communism when it acts as a network for its members and with the access to other social networks external to the family.

scholarly journals BLESSING OR CURSE? THE IMPACTS OF NON-AGRICULTURAL PART-TIME WORK OF THE LARGE FARMER HOUSEHOLDS ON AGRICULTURAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Xin Jiang ◽  
Shihu Zhong ◽  
Cancan Huang ◽  
Xiaoxin Guo ◽  
Jingjing Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Large Farmer ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Agricultural Labor Productivity ◽  
Part Time Work

This study analyzes the mechanism of coexistence of non-agricultural part-time work of farmer households and large-scale cultivation of cultivated land, and the effect of non-agricultural part-time work of the large farmer households on the agricultural labor productivity. Results indicate that non-agricultural part-time work of large farmer households promotes the agricultural labor productivity, particularly for those with higher non-agricultural incomes, younger age, higher education level and shorter distance between working places in urban sectors and rural residence. At the mean value of the samples, non-agricultural part-time work of the large farmer households will improve agricultural labor productivity by 27.1%. These results remain consistent after we experiment several robustness checks and the instrumental variable method. Further, it is worth stressing that non-agricultural part-time work inhibits the agricultural production for farmer households with labors less than three, while it exhibits positive effects for those with labors more than three. Finally, analysis of mechanism suggests that non-agricultural part-time work of large farmer households enhances the productivity via entering the agricultural association, increasing farm mechanization degree, and promoting the centralized production and farm management on the transferred farmland. It’s suggestive to maintain total area of the transferred farmland to avoid the reverse effects and then the optimal total cultivated area within the range of (100, 200) Mu. Policy implications of our work are discussed.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on the Female Domestic Workers and Their Children in Kamrup Districts of Assam

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms. Bijoyeta Das
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Domestic Labour

This paper has been prepared to visualize relationships between the overall condition of the workers in Kamrup Metro and Kamrup rural areas of Assam. It throws light on how the female domestic workers engaged in part time work function differently in both the areas. The increase in the number of domestic workers has led to the growth of the urban middle class, especially the increase in the number of women working outside their homes and availability of cheap domestic labour. Kamrup Districts has witnessed large scale migration over the past few years of women from the interior areas of Assam, while in Kamrup metro, most of the migrants are from areas in lower Assam .The poor women who engage in domestic work are often unable to care for their own families, leaving their own children alone for the whole day. The study was conducted on adults ranging from 27 to 40 yrs of age. There were various reasons for which these female workers engaged in such kind of work, v.i.z, illiteracy, uncertain income of other family members and preference for part time domestic work, higher number of children with low income in the family. The children of such workers are sent to schools in Kamrup metro, while a handful of children were provided with education via various means in Kamrup rural. The wages of the workers in rural areas were not sufficient to send their children to proper schools. In this paper, some implications are provided to assist such workers in helping their children for education. The paper also deals with the educational status and the challenges faced by such workers in the daily affairs.

scholarly journals EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF INFORMAL SECTOR COMPETITION ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: SOME LESSONS FROM SOUTH-EAST EUROPE

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850025 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLIN C. WILLIAMS ◽  
SLAVKO BEZEREDI
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

A widespread assumption is that competition from the informal sector has a negative impact on the firm performance of legitimate enterprises. This is because of the unfair competition they face from such enterprises in the informal sector. The aim of this paper is to provide an evidence-based evaluation of whether this is the case based on an analysis of the relationship between the firm performance of enterprises and their perception of the prevalence of informal sector competition. To do so, data is reported from a representative sample of 1,430 enterprises in Bulgaria, Croatia and FYR Macedonia. The finding is that enterprises asserting that their competitors participate in the informal economy have significantly lower real annual sales growth rates compared with those who assert that their competitors do not participate in the informal economy. The theoretical and policy implications are then discussed.

Regional Approach to Large Scale Wind Integration in South East Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Majstrović ◽  
William L. Polen
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Wind Integration ◽  
East Europe ◽  
Regional Approach ◽  
South East Europe

scholarly journals The role of climatic and environmental factors in the Hunnic phenomenon in south-east Europe

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Hakenbeck
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Subsistence Strategies ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
Clash Of Cultures

The causes of the Hunnic ‘phenomenon’ in south-east Europe and its impact on the populations of the late Roman provinces may be found in a complex web of climatic and environmental affordances, economic responses and resulting changes to social organisation. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that there was indeed an influx of people from regions north of the Black Sea or further east in the fourth century CE, but there is no indication of a large-scale migration from central Asia. It is possible that the climatic downturn and increased aridity in the 430s to 450s disrupted both the economic organisation of the incomers and that of the local Romanised population, requiring both to adopt new subsistence strategies. Such shared subsistence strategies may have engendered a sense of a shared identity. Rather than a clash of cultures, we see evidence of close integration and adaptive strategies to ancestral and newly encountered life-ways.

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