National Workshops on Public Employment Services Benchlearning

Events, Labour Market

Within the project of expert support to benchlearning among Western Balkan-6 Public Employment Services, several national workshops were organized: in Albania (30.10.2017.), Montenegro (31.10.2017.), Kosovo (01.11.2017.), Bosnia and Herzegovina (02.11.2017.), Serbia (02.11.2017.). Remaining two workshops will be organized soon: in Serbia (15.11.2017.) and Macedonia (22.11.2017.). In addition to workshops, retreat meetings were organized in order…

Analysis of Competitiveness of the Three Value Chains in Canton Sarajevo

Labour Market

CDESS project entitled “Analysis of Competitiveness of the Three Value Chains in Canton Sarajevo” was financially supported by Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Canton Sarajevo trough Call for Co-financing of Scientific Research/Arts Research and Development Projects of Special Interest for Canton Sarajevo in 2017. This project aims to identify three key value chains…

Regional Training on Benchlearning for Public Employment Services in the Western Balkans

Labour Market

CDESS experts participated in the training with the PES representatives from 6 WB countries from the region, which was held in Belgrade on 14.-16. September 2017. The first ever assessors training on benchlearning for representatives of Public Employment Services (PES) from the Western Balkans was organized by the Regional Cooperation Council’ (RCC) Employment and Social…

Workshop “Access to anonymized administrative data for the purposes of research and policy analysis”

Events

Our researcher Nermin Oruc attended workshop titled “Access to anonymized administrative data for the purposes of research and policy analysis” held on 21.-22. September 2017. in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop brought together researchers and policy analysts to assess the state of play of access to administrative data in the Visegrad countries and to discuss what…

JOB: Research assistant

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CDESS is seeking a full-time Research Assistant for at least one year, beginning in the end of September 2017. The Research Assistant (RA) will assist with the daily operations of research projects in the fields of economics, including topics on labour market, migration, education, and social policy. The most important task of the Research Assistant…

InGRID Scholarship for Autumn School at ISER

Events, Social policy

Our researcher analyst and member of BiHMOD team, Amela Kurta, received a scholarship for the autumn school “Using EUROMOD in cross country microsimulation” organized by ISER, University of Essex, from 25 to 27 October 2017. The InGRID project is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant…

Expert support to benchlearning among Western Balkan 6 Public Employment Services

Labour Market

CDESS, in a consortium with Budapest Institute, was contracted by RCC to provide expert support to benchlearning among Western Balkan 6 Public Employment Services. The purpose of this assignment is to contribute to enhanced cooperation and implementation of a “benchlearning” initiative among Public Employment Services of the Western Balkan economies, drawing on the experience of…

Conference “Migration, Diaspora and Development in Albania and in the Western Balkans”

Events, Migration

[:en]Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), on behalf of Western Balkan Migration Network, is organising Conference on “Migration, Diaspora and Development in Albania and in the Western Balkans”. The conference will be organised on 27-28 October 2017 in Tirana, Albania. Read more about call for papers for the conference on this link.[:ba]Centar za ekonomske…