Structure of the Labor Force and It’s Influence on the Economic Development in Macedonia

Abstract

Republic of Macedonia has a serios problem with the unemployment. Although many actions were used in the past years, the result is not on the desired level. This was our stimul to explore the dependence between unemployment and the education level of the population.The subject of this paper is an analysis of the educational structure of the efficient population in the Republic of Macedonia, analysis of the educational structure of the employed and the unemployed according to their totality and gender, as well as according to their educational level. After determination of the current conditions and the changes during the observed period (2002-2012) the relation between the education of the workforce and the economic development of the country is presented. The goal of this paper is to give comprehensive analysis of the current situation and the changes in the educational structure of the workforce in the Republic of Macedonia, and to percieve its importance for the economic development. A questionnaire for the workforce for the period of 2002, 2006 and 2012 form the State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia as well as home and foreign literature are used as sources of information.

Keywords: Educational structure, workforce, economic development