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Study/ Albanians do not give up a job easily, the duration is above the EU average

Study/ Albanians do not give up a job easily, the duration is above the EU

"Working time and structural change in Europe's transition economies" is a study by several World Bank economists that analyzed the long-term evolution of work tenure for six transition economies. It includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, the Russian Federation and Serbia and a country not in transition in the region like Turkey and the findings show some interesting trends for our country.

Thus, according to the study, when analyzing the age groups for each country, it results that, with the exception of Albania, the working life of the group of workers who entered the labor market in the 2000s is four to nine years shorter than that of workers who started working in the 1970s.

"The results of the APC (age-period-time-a model of demographic levels covering a broad age group over a given time frame) decomposition show that, as expected, working hours increase with age. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across countries: The most pronounced age profile is in Albania, where the average working duration is 2.2 years at age 30 and 11.0 years at age 50, a difference of almost 9 years" says the survey

The same brings to attention that in the EU this difference is 2.3 years at the age of 30 and 10.2 years at the age of 50. All countries except Albania have lower age retention profiles than the EU.

For all countries with the exception of Albania, the average length of time at work has been decreasing over the generations.

"A second result that stands out is the positive profile of staying at work in generations in Albania, which is very different from that of other countries. The peak of Albania's cohort profile is observed for persons born in the early 1970s who entered the labor market in the early 1990s, when Albania began to transition from a planned economy to a market economy. Attrition may have been particularly strong in the first years of the transition (Çuka et al. 2003). Albania is the only country in our sample where the average job tenure has increased continuously over the last two decades. This unusual trend may be a statistical reflection of the retirement of workers who were forced out of the traditional sector during the first years of the transition:

Referring to the document, it is said that the data from this study comes mainly from labor force surveys in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, Turkey and Serbia and from the Russian Longitudinal Mobility Survey (RLMS).

The average duration varies considerably in different countries, ranging from about 7.4 years in Russia to about 13.1 years in Serbia (Figure 1). This period of length of stay is not very different from that observed in the European Union, where it varies from 7.4 years in Latvia to 12.7 years in Greece. There is no common trend in tenure for the seven countries: the average tenure is increasing in Albania, decreasing in Turkey and remaining relatively stable in the rest of the countries during the period covered by the surveys.

Study/ Albanians do not give up a job easily, the duration is above the EU

In Albania, Serbia and Turkey, the length of stay is longer among people working in small firms (firms with ten or fewer employees); in the remaining countries, the longest tenure is among people working in large firms (firms with more than 50 employees). In terms of occupational groups, people working in routine jobs have shorter tenures than people working in non-routine jobs in five of the seven countries.

*This article was published by Monitor.al and reposted by Tiranapost.al