Financial support for the Second Annual Conference of WB-MIGNET provided by CEI

We are happy to announce that the Central European Initiative decided to provide financial support to CDESS for organization of the Second Annual Conference of WB-MIGNET through their Cooperation Fund 2016. After receiving the financial support for our First Annual Conference, we continue our successful cooperation with CEI. We highly appreciate their support in our…

Another InGRID scholarship for summer school in Amsterdam received

Our researcher and team leader of BiHMOD team, Nermin Oruc, received a scholarship for the summer school “Migrant women on the labour market – identifying determinants and consequences of labour market inequalities considering the intersection between gender and ethnicity”organised by AIAS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 24 to 28 October 2016. The InGRID project is…

Strengthening the Labour Market Research Network-Toward the Understanding of the Political Economy of Unemployment in the Western Balkans

We currently participate in a project “Strengthening the Labour Market Research Network – Toward the Understanding of the Political Economy of Unemployment in the Western Balkan”, led by FREN Belgrade. This project aims at the creation of a Labour Market Research Network of Excellence and Internationalisation. The project intends to consolidate recent advances in applied…

New paper by our researcher published in Institute of Development Studies

Paper “Integrating Informal Institutions in Local Governance: Does it Matter” co-authored by our Research Fellow Snezana Misic Mihajlovic was published in the Working Paper Series of Institute of Development Studies, UK. In this paper authors add to the literature on ‘informally institutionalised’ relationships between states and citizens by examining the case of a particular type of…

A new paper by our researchers accepted for publishing in European Journal of Education

This article analyses the differences between expected and actual wages of VET students and graduates. It uses a survey of VET students enrolled in schools  in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and data about employed VET graduates from the Labour Force Survey.  The model of determinants of wages, expected or actual, estimated separately on each dataset, reveals…

First Meeting of the RRPP Western Balkans Research Network on Decentralization

Our director Nermin Oruc participated in the first meeting of the RRPP Western Balkans Research Network on Decentralization. The project was implemented by EURAK Belgrade in partnership with Institute for Strategic Research and Prognoses from Podgorica. This project is implemented within Regional Research Promotion Programme supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The first working…