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- Title
Unemployment and the Eurozone crisis: the state of social welfare in the Balkans.
- Authors
Qerimi, Qerim; Sergi, Bruno
- Abstract
This article explores the trends that define key social welfare moments for the countries of the western Balkans. The mounting Eurozone crisis and the interde-pendence of economies are both important phenomena that condition the need for intervention in the labour sector of the peninsula. Indeed, the article observes that the effects of the crisis are clear and that these have had further impact on the western Balkans terrain, one that is consolidating and fragile in some respects, in ways that have produced a greater number of unemployed people. The article offers statistics for each of the western Balkans countries and analyses them against a background that requires reform. The overall purpose is directed towards an in-creased awareness of the state of social welfare in the western Balkans; of the interdependence that exists between the EU and aspiring members; and, perhaps most importantly, of the strategic demand for introducing vigorous economic re- forms that promote innovation and competition, boost production and strengthen democratic and accountable institutions.
- Subjects
BALKAN Peninsula; EUROPE; ECONOMIC conditions in the Eurozone; UNEMPLOYMENT; POLITICAL stability; MARKETS &; society; ECONOMIC development; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
South East Europe Review (SEER): Journal for Labour & Social Affairs in Eastern Europe, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 4, p425
- ISSN
1435-2869
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/1435-2869-2012-4-425