SEE Jobs Gateway Database
The SEE Jobs Gateway Database is the result of a collaboration between the World Bank and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). It covers a detailed set of labour market indicators for the six Western Balkan and four EU peer countries:
Western Balkan countries EU peer countries
* Albania * Austria
* Bosnia and Herzegovina * Bulgaria
* Kosovo * Croatia
* Montenegro * Hungary
* North Macedonia
* Serbia
The dataset is harmonised across indicators, age groups and educational attainment and is available on a quarterly and annual basis. It is based upon national Labour Force Surveys starting from 2010. The SEE Jobs Gateway Database covers four parts: (i) Key economic indicators, (ii) Labor market - LFS data, (iii) Labor market - administrative data, and (iv) Data on earnings and unit labor costs. Definitions, methodological notes and breaks in time series are provided in the ‘Metadata’ on the SEE Jobs Gateway Database website.
On the basis of this database, annual flagship reports - Western Balkans Labor Market Briefs - are published.
The SEE Jobs Gateway is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance.
Licensing
When using the database you may either quote 'SEE Jobs Gateway Database' or the reports:
Santos, Indhira; von Lenthe, Cornelius; Jovanović, Branimir. 2023.
Western Balkans Labor Market Brief 2021 - Special Topic on Employment in new greenfield FDI. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group
https://wiiw.ac.at/western-balkans-labor-market-brief-2021-dlp-6636.pdf
Vidovic, Hermine; Brodmann, Stefanie; Reyes, Gonzalo; Johansson de Silva, Sara; Marguerie, Alicia; Rigolini, Jamele; Brancatelli, Calogero; Kupets Olga; Leitner, Sandra. 2020.
Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2020. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
https://wiiw.ac.at/western-balkans-labor-market-trends-2020-dlp-5300.pdf
Vidovic, Hermine; Brodmann, Stefanie; Reyes, Gonzalo; Arandarenko, Mihail; Aleksic, Dragan; Brancatelli, Calogero; Leitner, Sandra; Mara, Isilda. 2019.
Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2019. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
https://wiiw.ac.at/western-balkans-labor-market-trends-2019-dlp-5168.pdf
Vidovic, Hermine; Mara, Isilda; Brodmann, Stefanie; Reyes, Gonzalo; Arandarenko, Mihail; Aleksic, Dragan. 2018.
Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2018. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group
https://wiiw.ac.at/western-balkans-labor-market-trends-2018-dlp-5169.pdf
Vidovic, Hermine; Koettl-Brodmann, Johannes; Mara, Isilda; Posadas, Josefina. 2017. Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2017. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. https://wiiw.ac.at/western-balkans-labor-market-trends-2017-dlp-5170.pdf
Downloads
Dashboard & Database: SEE Jobs Gateway
Publications:
- Western Balkans Labor Market Brief 2021
- Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2020
- Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2019
- Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2018
- Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2017
Contact
Branimir Jovanović, Monika Schwarzhappel
Research Areas: Labour, Migration and Income Distribution
Keywords: Labour markets, growth and employment, inactivity, informal employment, atypical employment, wages, youth unemployment, long-term unemployment, Open Data
JEL classification: J01, J21, J24, J46, 64
Countries covered: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
News
- Updated SEE Jobs Gateway Database (25 September 2023)
- Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2019 (21 March 2019)
- Further improvement in Western Balkan labour markets last year (20 March 2018)
- Employment in the Western Balkans up by 6% since 2010 according to new regional database (6 April 2017)