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Health workers unemployment during the economic crisis

In 2009 the global economy was at the bottom of a crisis that caused decrease of business activities, increases in unemployment, and decrease of government revenues. The global economic crisis has seriously influenced the economies of many countries and devastated the lives of millions of people. The aim of this study was to present how the labor market in Croatia reacts to global economic trends in the period from 2008 to 2011 (the period before and during the global economic crisis), and whether there is a discrepancy in relation to movements in the labor market in Croatia and the labor market in the European Union and in United States. The aim of this study was also to provide data on reaction of labor market in health care system with focus on physician labor market in time of economic crisis. The average unemployment rate in the EU27 in 2008 was 7.1%±0.3, in the USA was 5.8%±0.8, and in Croatia was 8.4%±0.6. The average unemployment rate in the EU27 in 2011 was 9.7%±0.2, in the USA was 9.0%±0.2, while the Croatia was 13.3% ±0.3. Unemployment rate was in different ways connected to negative growing of GDP. While in USA and EU27 unemployment rate (year on year percentage rate) began to increase before the negative grow of GDP, in Croatia, negative grow of GDP was primarily registered and increase in the unemployment rate appeared later. Decrease in the total number of employees in Croatia in period from 2009 to 2011 was a statistically higher compared with the decrease of the number of employees in the health care system in Croatia. During 2011, number of employees in health care system was increased while the number of employees at labor market in total continuous to decrease like during 2009 and 2010. Croatian economy slower reacted to global economic changes ; however, the impact of global crisis on Croatian economic activity is longer present than in the EU27 and the USA. Health care system in Croatia in terms of manpower was less vulnerable to the impact of global economic crisis than labor market in total.

health workers ; global economic crisis ; labor market ; unemployment

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