On an annual basis, more than 25.000 to 27.000 people leave Serbia permanently from 2011 to 2022. On the other hand, the influx of foreign workers is constantly increasing with the dominance of the Chinese, Russians and Turks
From Serbia for more than a decade, on an annual basis, permanently Go away more than 25.000 people, according to the results of the research carried out by the Institute for the Development of Innovations, entitled "Workforce Mobility in Serbia", it says "today".
On the other hand, in the first seven months of this year, our country issued about 50.000 work permits for foreigners, dominated by workers from China, Russia and Turkey.
The situation in Serbia has undoubtedly improved when it comes to the number of unemployed, and the economic situation on the labor market today and in 2008 cannot be compared, said the director of this Institute, Nenad Jevtović.
"At that time we had almost a million unemployed people, and now we have 296.000 unemployed people, many of whom are temporarily unemployed, who are in the process of changing jobs," he explained.
As it was concluded, those results are the consequence, first of all, of world economic trends and the fact that "we haven't had a war for 25 years", that's why, according to him, "you need to be an anti-talent for economic policy in order not to progress".
However, according to Jevtović, the problem is that until 2027, we have chosen a growth model based on construction.
"It's like if we chose to drive a diesel car, and we don't have diesel at home, we have to import it." So we chose that, and we don't have the people and the manpower. We don't have people for all those construction projects," Jevtović pointed out.
That is why, as of July this year, we have about 50.000 issued work permits for foreigners in Serbia, and that number will certainly increase in the coming period, Jevtović believes, and adds that this is inevitable with all the work that EXPO requires, because Serbia does not have people for that. "There is nowhere for workers to come from Serbia," he pointed out.
Number of foreign workers in Serbia
As "Vreme" previously wrote during the 251 performed inspections, labor inspectors found a total of 7781 foreign nationals at work, of which 867 did not have a work permit in the Republic of Serbia. Of those 867 workers, 687 are from Turkey, 36 from China, 24 from Cuba, 26 from India, nine from the Russian Federation, 14 from Turkmenistan, 15 from Uzbekistan, 22 from Egypt, and three are citizens of Tajikistan...
Of those who were caught working last year, most of them were from the People's Republic of China, 5952 of them, followed by Turkey - 1183, Egypt 256...
450 foreign citizens, mostly Turkish citizens, 335 of them, were found to be working "on the black", without a concluded employment contract and/or without applying for mandatory social insurance.
"We don't know where the people who leave are"
Jevtović stated that from 25.000 to 27.000 people per year, from 2011 to 2022, left Serbia permanently.
However, according to his words, the state of Serbia does not have any quality data on emigration.
"We don't know where the people who leave are," Jevtović pointed out.
"Data on immigration to our country is clear"
On the other hand, the data on immigration to our country is very clear, which, as he said, is also part of the obligations towards the European Union (EU), which we assumed back in 2008, and that data in Serbia is monitored by KIRS (Commissariat for Refugees and displaced persons).
Jevtović stated that the picture of people who come to work in Serbia is not exactly what it seems to us.
"The Chinese are dominant there, then the Russians, and since 2017 we have had an exponential growth of Turks, who have tripled from 2017 to 2021," he revealed.
And he explained: "The dominant places where they work are highways and various construction sites, such as the Moravian Corridor and the like."
Jevtović added that India also appears with a large number of workers in our country and is growing in the agricultural sector. He further clarified that there are cases where they are paid for the entire arrangement to come from India by plane to do the work here and later return the same way.
According to the research results, this happens most in Srem where, as Jevtović said, unemployment is almost non-existent.
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