The female labour force in an urban economy during transition: A view from the City of Nis

Stanković, Jelena; Makojević, Nikola; Janković–Milić, Vesna; Radosavljević, Marija

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.10.006

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“…In relation to the Republic of Serbia, the study's results could also be explained by the fact that many of the enterprises from the Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia went through a challenging process of privatisation during the 2000s, and many women lost their jobs during that period (Videnović et al, 2021). Most of them are now older than 40 and belong to a harder-to-employ group of people (Stanković et al, 2015). Therefore, policymakers should create programmes for the employment of such a group of women, some of which may involve the establishment of, for example, social enterprises, the or-ganisation of training programmes, or a solution to the discrepancies between skills and labour demand 2 .…”

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“…The Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia is characterised by more unfavourable data since the employment rate of women in 2020 was 43.2%, while the employment rate of men was 56.8% (Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 2020). The low employment proportion of women is partly a consequence of the unfavourable development of the labour market during the transition process and lagged privatisation, when there was a significant decline in the employment rate of women (Stanković et al, 2015). Specifically, in 2002, the ratio of male to female participation rates was 1.3, and the ratio of female to male unemployment rates was 1.5 (World Bank, 2004).…”

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Determinants of Women’s Employment in the Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia: An Econometric Approach

Milanović

Marjanović

2023

TEME

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During time, women’s participation in the labour markets all over the world has increased. However, gender differences in the level of employment still exist, especially in underdeveloped and developing countries. Since empirical evidence shows that a higher degree of women’s employment has many positive effects on the economy, it is of great importance for such countries’ governments to create mechanisms for increasing it. These mechanisms are especially important for the Republic of Serbia, since women’s employment is still lagging behind men’s employment. On the interregional level, the gender discrepancies in employment are even larger, which slows down the development of the country as a whole. In order to create effective strategies and mechanisms which will increase the degree of women’s employment in such regions, it is of great importance to discover which factors currently determine whether women will be employed or not. Since the problem of women’s unemployment is particularly noticeable in the Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia, this paper aims to provide an analysis of the basic factors of women’s employment in this region, so as to raise awareness about these factors and shed light on possible employment policies that could be designed accordingly. These policies are expected to enhance the economic development of this region and the country as a whole. For this purpose, primary research was conducted on a sample of 678 women. The results of the study indicate that age, educational attainment, household income, place of residence, and having children ages 7 through 18 represent significant factors that determine women’s employment.

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Determinants of Women’s Employment in the Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia: An Econometric Approach

Milanović

Marjanović

2023

TEME

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“…(N. P. Sari, 2016) states that work transformation from informal sector to formal sector being expected to be progress to workers productivity, also encourage to economic growth of a country. The research related to productivity of woman commuter labors have been much studied such as (Stankovic, Makojevic, et al 2015) in researching the south part city of Serbia by resulted that there were positive relation between woman labors and business owner perception toward quality of labors. Whereas increasing of 1% woman labors can take effect to increase of working quality level in average as 0,439.…”

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A Literature Review: Women Worker Commuting Productivity Informal Sector

Ranita

Siddin

2019

IJMTSS

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Woman worker has to get more attention in the formal sector of their role, beside of informal sector. Because of the women role has sufficient potentially toward the labor market. The number of commuter woman workers are getting increased in the formal sector. This is also influenced by the owner of the business to be trusted on the productivity of commuter woman workers. The urban sector of economic offers more formal sector especially service sector. Woman workers regarded more proper to be in the formal sector that concerning to woman character for the reason of helping family economically, the concept of gender encourages woman workers to tend to have the spirit for doing work better. The effect of modernization has become one of mobilizing to women in the rural area to an urban area even behavior or transportation. Conformity of woman characteristic informal sector encourages the productivity of workers in the service sector.

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“…Becker (1957) has formulated a theory of labour market discrimination, where the level of discrimination is determined by a discrimination coefficient (Stanković et al, 2015). Becker argues that, when employers are reluctant to hire representatives of certain socio-demographic groups, workers belonging to these groups are forced to accept lower wages than the other, to compensate for the reluctance of employers to hire them.…”

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The Transformation of The Serbian Labour Market from a Gender Perspective

Stanković

2016

Economic Themes

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Abstract:In conditions of great social changes that have affected the entire world since the beginning of 1980, there is the emergence of new social risks such as difficult labour market entry, stable employment problem, the problem of outdated qualifications, affecting both women and men. In the competitive race for employment, differences between men and women in the market are conditioned by their starting position. The position of women is required by expectations which exist in regard to their gender role. Women are additionally burdened by establishing a balance between work and family responsibilities, especially childcare and with caring for elderly family members.Men are more often employed in areas that are better paid and socially valued, while women are mainly employed in the service sector. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the quality of labour force in the Republic of Serbia and changes in the gender wage gap during the observed period. The main indicators of gender inequality show significant differences in the status of women compared to men in the labour market. Analysis of labour market trends over the past decade has illustrated that the position of women is constantly deteriorating.

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The female labour force in an urban economy during transition: A view from the City of Nis

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Determinants of Women’s Employment in the Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia: An Econometric Approach

Determinants of Women’s Employment in the Region of Southern and Eastern Serbia: An Econometric Approach

A Literature Review: Women Worker Commuting Productivity Informal Sector

The Transformation of The Serbian Labour Market from a Gender Perspective

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