Unemployment in Yugoslavia (1963)

From the December 1963 issue of the Socialist Standard

A number of people have asked us for the source of the figures on unemployment in Yugoslavia given in the September SS. The figures were taken from the International Labour Review's statistical supplement, June 1963. According to the supplement the figures show registered unemployed from "employment office statistics". It is interesting to note that Peking Review (27'9/63), an English language magazine from China, gives the following figures in an article on Yugoslavia. “According to official statistics,” says the article, “ in February, 1963 the number of the unemployed reached 339.000, or about 10 per cent of the number of the employed. In addition. every year many workers go abroad seeking work.”

Adam Buick