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…

New research article by our researcher published in Sudosteuropa

A new article authored by our researchers Nermin Oruc and Amina Tabakovic was published in Sudosteuropa. This paper aims to analyse whether and how this decrease is related to a change in motives for sending remittances. The change in motives will be analysed by exploring the interaction between social transfers and remittances using two household datasets, from 2007 (before…

First Meeting of the RRPP Western Balkans Labour Market Research Network

Our director Nermin Oruc participated in first meeting of the RRPP Western Balkans Labour Market Research Network. The project was implemented by FREN in partnership with American College Skoplje and Institute for Strategic Research and Prognoses from Podgorica. This project is realized within Regional Research Promotion Programme supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The…

First Annual Conference of WB-MIGNET

The First Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET) in Tirana on 15-16 April 2016, marked the initiation of the Network activities. It was attended by a number of representatives from government institutions, international organisations, academia and students. Welcome speeches were delivered by Prof. Anastas Angjeli, member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences…