In the Organization of the Croatian Chamber of economy and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and arts in Zagreb are presented the results of the project "we hire Croatia." Scientists who have worked on the project presented by 39 of the guidelines for the reforms necessary to increase employment.
IVA Tomic from the Economic Institute in Zagreb presented the status and problems of the labour market by alerting on the extremely low rates of activity and employment, and on a high proportion of retired in the working age. She underlined that we had the fourth lowest rate of activity (71%) and the second lowest employment rate (59%) in the EU in 2014, while the activity rate for men in working age (20-64), the lowest in the EU (76% vs. 83% for the EU-27). As a particularly worrying problem, T pointed out the rate of youth unemployment, which is more than double the unemployment rate is higher than for the general population, and far higher than the average of the EU-28 (20.6% vs. 43.1%). She said that the decline in employment in the crisis, most felt in the private sector, including crafts and free-lances.
"The problems in other segments of the economy have led to a cycle of falling GDP and by weak demand for its work. Problems on the labour market, there is really no problems there are somewhere else, "said Daniel Nestić from interpreting and EIZ key causes of the problems of the labor market said, adding that they are part of the problem, and structurally high unemployment and weak, but the offer of work, permanent mismatch between supply and demand for labor, fixed combination of both factors for regulatory rigidities, insufficient normative flexibility as well as a high tax burden on labour.
Joseph Kandarp J from the Croatian Catholic University presented the views and opinions of businessmen about the labour market and employment resulting from the survey which was conducted among businessmen, 13000 visible, optimistic information according to which 32.3% of businessmen plans to hire new employees. "The employees are one of the most important resources of any company, and how to make it easier to usmjeravalo and potenciralo, and the development of their own employers, the survey revealed that can differentiate three main factors that affect the dynamics of the quality of the business: legal regulations, employers ' activities related to the sector of human resources and education and training of employees," said Kalle J.
Predrag Bejaković from the Institute of public finances, talking about how to increase the efficiency of active labour market policy measures. "We hired Croatia it is necessary to achieve carefully targeted programs, which can increase employment, along with a slight influence on the expression of employees, allow to create real new values and effectively increase the income less educated workers," Bejaković said, adding that it is necessary, detailed and precise alignment of the program for the long-term unemployed and those who are furthest from the labour market.
"Croatia has diverse characteristics with regard to the different forms of flexibility: the high share of new hires with contracts at a certain time and those who work in shifts and on weekends, and a low percentage of employees who mainly work in the evening and at night. All stakeholders must make sure that Croatia has a flexible work force, and the emphasis should be on the development of human potential ", said Bejaković. For a better flexibility and security on the labour market, and suggests that it should improve the quality of legislation, to do the work flexibility acceptable and workers and employers, improve the system of collective bargaining, to speed up entry and exit (in) from employment, reduce the cost of the disposal of excess code employers ' workers and provide social security and to protect primjereniju workers after being fired.
It's facilitating self-employment and generate small Affairs necessarily so we hired Croatia Željko Mrnjavac, considered with the Faculty of Economics in split that highlights how in Croatia where the rule of law reflected on labour relations so that the workers are often exposed to poor working conditions such as avoiding the payment of social contributions and dr. "Those who can not do without a lot of administration and costs to legalize their status work activities are moving into the zone, the grey economy and work on the black market or remain isolated from the world of work", highlights and adds Mrnjavac to preference for just one form of employment opportunities limits the exploitation of all work the resource of the company.
"High overall tax burden in the circumstances of an unstable macroeconomic environment and not sufficiently effective legal system resulting in a decrease in employment and investments," said Nika Šimurina with the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She said that it is necessary to reduce tax burdens, simplify and stabilize the tax system and tax measures need to support productive investments, especially in innovation and technology.
Vehovec s EIZ-and she tried to answer the question of how to extend working life. "You need the positive social campaign about older workers, for the rejection of stereotypes and prejudices about the old ones," says Vehovec.
Joseph Pica with the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb he was talking about how to boost the local labour markets. He stressed the need for strengthening and by directing the local administration, entrepreneurial environment and cooperation to promote the culture of work, strengthening, and by directing the educational system in cooperation with entrepreneurs and the retention of highly-educated.
CHAMBER of COMMERCE Vice President for International Affairs and the EU Želimir presented the K National economic platform of the dual education in the Republic of Croatia, the CROATIAN CHAMBER of ECONOMY project which the initiator, and whose objective is to connect the system of education and the economy modeled on Austria and Germany. Dual education will include young people on the labour market even during the middle of vocational schooling and higher education. The entire project would be financed from the EU operational programme human resources Effective 2014-2020, and the cost of the overall funding for the four years of the project implementation costs would be approximately 250 million.
"Employment has to be a priority national objective and must be set up so as to be measurable, and the KPI and the Government and economic growth," concluded the project coordinator and Advisor for the policy and employment in the CCC Davorko Vidovic which announced and resuming the project.