Social Policy for the Unemployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina Cover Image

Socijalna politika prema nezaposlenim u BiH
Social Policy for the Unemployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Suada Buljubašić
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: unemployment; programs about job-finding; active dimensions to job-finding; social problems; work market; financial aid; poorness; social isolation.

Summary/Abstract: Unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina has dramatic proportion, because it is bigger than 40 % (these are registered datas). Unemployment is made because the war destroyed economic capacitance and facilities. And bad privatization, too. Privatization was made a lot of problems, specially problem about unemployment, so many workers have not a job, because they are get dismissal. We have many forms of unemployment like structural, friction, cyclical, and voluntary, but most expressed is compulsory unemployment. Inter workers who lost a job more than 2/3 have different degree of education. People waiting job more than three years. It is average. People who have 35 -55 years waiting job more than five years. Problem of unemployment produces many consequences into social, individual and collective life. Specialists say that this problem cause different outcomes: physical and mental problems, people lose self-esteem, poorness, reduction of sociall roles, disorder family relationship, etc. Unmeployment made a lot of deviations: problems with alcohol, suicide, criminal, prostitution… If our community want to moderate this problem, it will need a big interest. First, actualization of social right, money aid, different programs about jobfindind people who have different degree education.

  • Issue Year: XLVIII/2007
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 225-239
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian