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Global Competitiveness Index 2019

According to data from the World Economic Forum's report in 2019, Serbia is ranked 72nd among 141 countries, with a recorded GCI value of 60.9.

Gender inequality on the labor market

There is a difference in wages between men and women in Serbia, and data show that women, although they have the same level of education and years of work experience, earn about 12% less than men, said the director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN) Jelena Žarković... Read more

MONS How equal and equitable is health care in...

The goal of the panel discussion, titled "How equal and equitable is health care in Serbia?", organized by FREN and SeConS to mark the 4th edition on the Monitoring Social Situation in Serbia (MONS) web platform, was to present latest data and to open for debate main issues... Read more

MONS "Youth in Serbia: Journey From...

Belgrade, October 4, 2017. Participants of the panel discussion "Youth in Serbia: Journey From School to Work", organized to present the third issue and topic on the internet platform for monitoring the social situation in Serbia, MONS, noted that the transition from school to work in... Read more

Global Competitiveness Index 2019
15 Oct 2019
Gender inequality on the labor market
13 Feb 2019
MONS How equal and equitable is health care in Serbia?
26 Feb 2018
MONS "Youth in Serbia: Journey From School to Work"
05 Oct 2017

Past projects

  • Analysis of capacity and organizational structure of participants of social dialogue in Serbia
  • Evaluation of the Package of Services for Youth and Active Employment Policy Measures Aimed at Youth
  • Networking of business and educational sectors
  • Achieving effective policy monitoring and evaluation through evidence supplied by the civil society
  • Reforms of property tax in Serbia: Results and Perspectives
  • Policy Impact Analysis – From Inactivity to Employment
  • European Integration Office - SEKO
  • Making Work Pay in Western Balkan Countries: The Case of Serbia and Macedonia
  • Policy Measures to Formalize the Shadow Economy and their Effects on Economic Growth in Serbia
  • Assessment of Results of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy’s Social Innovation Fund
  • Towards Measuring Public Sector Performance
  • Research fot the USAID Competitiveness Project
  • Analysis of the Local Labor Markets
  • Labor Statistics in Transition
  • Evidence-Based Policy Making Initiative in Employment – Support to Ministry of Economy and Regional Development
  • Gender pay gap in the Western Balkan countries: Evidence from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia
  • Econometric Assistance to the Ministry of Finance
  • Gender Impact Analysis of Existing Support Measures for Entrepreneurship in Serbia
  • Creating recommendations for improvement of efficiency of employment policies aimed at internally displaced persons in Serbia

Publications

Analysing Income Inequality in Serbia - From Data to Policy

2017

Quarterly Monitor

QM57

FREN in News

In Serbia the largest gap in Europe between the rich and the poor

Today's presentation of the new online platform for Monitoring Social Situation in Serbia MONS (www.mons.rs) highlighted that the great increase in inequality has negative consequences on economic growth and stability of the society.

How to reduce the gap between rich and poor in Serbia?

To reduce the gap between the rich and the poor in Serbia, it is necessary to improve the policies that contribute to higher employability, such as education policy, lifelong learning and active employment policies. This was presented today at the presentation of a new online platform "Monitoring of the Social Situation in Serbia" (MONS).

Social enterprises - solution for the difficultly employable categories

Social enterprises, in addition to realization of their economic function through the sale of products and services on the market, have an important social role to contribute to solving social issues. This was concluded at a conference organized by the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics FREN.

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