A COMPARISION OF THE LABOR MARKET IN SLOVENIA AND GERMANY

Pred dobrimi desetimi leti je bila Nemčija razglašena za »bolnika Evrope«, na drugi strani pa se je slovensko gospodarstvo hitro razvijalo in svoj vrh doseglo pred razmahom gospodarske krize. Danes pa se je situacija obrnila in Nemčija beleži rekordno nizko stopnjo brezposelnosti, v Sloveniji pa se ta po velikem porastu v zadnjih letih še niti ne umirja. Problematična je predvsem dolgotrajna brezposelnost, ki je, izražena v odstotku vseh brezposelnih, leta 2013 v Sloveniji presegla 50 %, kar pomeni, da je vsak drugi brezposelni dolgotrajno brezposelni. Problem slovenskega trga dela predstavlja tudi izjemno nizka stopnja zaposlenosti starejših. Ti kazalci kažejo, da je nemški trg dela glede na slovenskega v dosti boljšem stanju, ne moremo pa z gotovostjo trditi, kateri je bolj fleksibilen, saj ne poznamo popolnega merila fleksibilnosti trga dela.Good ten years ago, Germany was declared to be »the patient of Europe«, on the other hand, the Slovenian economy has developed rapidly and reached its peak before the deepening of the economic crisis. However, times have changed and nowadays Germany has the lowest unemployment rate, while the big increase in Slovenia in recent years is not even slowing down. The problem consists mainly in the long-term unemployment, which in Slovenia, if expressed in the percentage of all unemployment, has exceeded over 50 % in 2013. That means that every second unemployed person is unemployed for a long term. The problem in the Slovenian labor market is also the extreme low rate of employed older workers. These indicators show that the German labor market is much better in relation to the Slovenian, but we cannot with certainty tell which market is more flexible, because we do not know the complete criteria of labor market flexibility