Since 2008/2009 when the world crisis hit Slovenia, the system’s reconfiguration has been determined significantly more supranationally. The rising public debt and related increasing dependence on supranational institutions and financial (bond) markets has been strongly correlated with the growing unilateral implementation of these institutions’ demands and pressures. Despite the mounting pressures, the formal structure of industrial relations in Slovenia has not undergone any major changes. However, within the formal structure there are clear signs of big changes in power relations and in the logic and quality of the industrial relations system.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34212445
Ten years ago the analysis of the situation on the labour market in Slovenia and in other countries notified the increasing flexibility of labour and employment and the need of flexicurity. Recent analyses suggest that changes in the last decade in many European countries, including Slovenia went in the opposite direction - fewer workers have the perspective of flexicurity, while for most, and especially the youth working lives are characterized by an increasing precariousness. This article has two purposes: to contribute to the current conceptual debate on the flexibility and precarity and to contribute to the understanding of the observed changes at the labour market in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4017864
According to the data, the inequality in Slovenia remained relatively stable and low over the period from independence in 1991 to the end of the 2008, when the current economic crisis hit Slovenia. Regardless of the fairly egalitarian nature of the current Slovenian society, there are groups with characteristics that put them at greater risk for falling into material depravity, poverty or social exclusion. The chapter presents trends in inequality in comparative European perspective, along with trends in poverty, material deprivation and social exclusion, health and housing. We observe inequality trends in the period of transition (and subsequent consolidation) of the Slovenian state. One would expect that transitional turbulences would have a significant impact on poverty levels, inequality in society and material deprivation and social exclusion. As we will present in this chapter, this impact was noticeably reduced in the previous period by the activities of the state.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32763229
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions by higher education (HE) senior professors and managers of their role in preparing graduates for entry to the labour market. By providing a theoretical and empirical overview of the functional role of HE institutions in preparing graduates for work, the paper designs an own research framework for future developments in this area. Design/methodology/approach - The conclusions in the paper are based on a literature review and approximately 240 semi-structured interviews with HE professors and managers from six European countries and from six different study fields. The results are broadly compared with an international survey of graduates from 20, mainly European, countries. Findings - The senior HE professors and managers see their own role in supporting graduates' careers in a surprisingly intuitive way. There are some important differences and similarities among the study fields, although they are generally not motivated to apply an evidence-based approach to study and programme developments. Originality/value - This paper is based on the results of a three-year survey of the European research network, and two international conferences comprising more than 100 contributions from over 30, mainly European, countries.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32769117
Book chapter examines return to the labour market of erased persons, i.e. citizens of other republics of former Yugoslavia permanently residing in Slovenia who were deprived of their status of permanent residents on February 1992. They were, by a simple administrative erasure from the register of permanent residents, transformed into illegal aliens. After years of struggle for the restitution of their legal statuses, they could return to labour market, but they were only able to fill in precarious jobs. Contribution takes account of the two important elements of labour market which are combined in the case of erased persons: analyse of new (dual or fragmented) composition of labour force, which seems to be also founded on underlying social statuses, otherwise foreign to inherent elements of labour market. For this reason it seems that the social identity, imposed upon erased persons, has stayed active in labour market integration process after the restitution of legal statuses.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1177197