SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe

This article updates the authors’ previous analysis of the economic position facing western Balkans countries. It analyses development between 2008 and 2018 in five countries from the region - Serbia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Montenegro; North...

This article provides an overview of the results of a survey on the quality of social dialogue in the implementation of occupational health and safety law in the Republic of Croatia. The survey was carried out within the EU project Occupational...

There is a growing volume of literature on the EU’s enlargement towards the eastern part of the continent which, from the perspective of the SEER Journal, is gaining increasing importance as the EU now seeks, once again, to re-orient itself...

One of the main constitutional legal protections in Kosovo is that applying to property. The Constitution guarantees this and it can therefore be realised at the Constitutional Court. Problems regarding the protection of property have, for many...

The labour market in North Macedonia is characterised by strong differences in terms of the vertical distribution of jobs and the higher probability of women being in low-paid and unpaid family jobs. Data from the EU-level Survey on Income and...

This article aims to present a clear picture of the attempts towards the normalisation of relations in the western Balkans between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia via the process of the dialogue, facilitated by the UN General...

This article reviews the recent performance of south-east European, and eastern European, economies on the issue of wages. This is a revised version of an article which we carried previously (Vol. 20 No. 2) but which has now been updated to take...

The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development were adopted by world leaders at an historic UN Summit in 2015 and officially came into force in 2016. The goals are not legally binding, but it is for...

This article describes the flow of migrants towards the EU and seeks to provide a preliminary assessment of the impact of such flows on the economies of Croatia and Serbia, two countries on the route but not necessarily destination countries in...

This final part of the author’s keynote on the occasion of our 20th anniversary symposium, held earlier in 2018, draws the recent history of central and eastern Europe up to date. It then goes on to explore the deep-seated changes that the author...

Kosovo’s universal non-means-tested basic old age pension provides an income floor for all resident citizens aged 65 and over who do not qualify for other budget-financed schemes. It is regarded as administratively simple and cost-efficient....

This article presents an analysis of democratisation in countries of south-eastern Europe in the context of EU membership. After a brief theoretical overview of the EU’s capacity for democratisation, the article highlights the increased attention...

This article analyses the development of labour relations law in Kosovo and in the EU, and the integration process of Kosovo with the EU, specifically the harmonisation of labour legislation. Rights from work and the relations arising from them...

Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union in 2007 as part of the EU’s sixth enlargement wave. However, the problems concerning Bulgaria and Romania, such as their struggle with economic problems, are still on the agenda. That both countries...

This article, the first in a series, provides an analysis of the south-east European EU integration project, taking here a historic perspective of the position as it applied in those first twenty years up to 2009. It seeks in particular to question...

This article sets out a comparative overview of the legal and constitutional protection of property rights in the systems operating in Europe and the United States with a view to seeing how the right to property is protected through constitutions...

This article examines the issue of the partial transfer of Kosovo’s sovereignty to international organisations, addressing the issue’s constitutional considerations in respect of the Kosovo Constitution. We also consider here the issue of...

This article looks at how feminist legal scholars have approached the subject of law and the role of law in advancing the equality of women with men. By analysing the example of Kosovo, the article discusses the adoption and use of formal legal...

One of the basic tenets of human capital theory, in the domain of labour economics, is that there are two main factors which sustain and enhance worker productivity in the labour market: the individual’s investment in formal education; and the...