Living Standards Measurements Study - Serbia 2002 - 2007

job. While 26 percent of the population receive
pensions and slightly over one third of respondents
said that they do not have any labour-related
income.
Differences in type of income are closely
linked with gender and education. Nearly 45 percent
of men earn income from their current job compared
to 29 percent of women. But over 40 percent of
women do not have any labour-related income
compared to 26 percent of men. In relation to those
with a low level of education it is typical that more
people generate income from pensions (36.4
percent) than from salaries (17.8 percent), which is
the result of their difficulties to find employment,
while 45.1 percent of the poorly educated do not
earn any labour-related income. Among people with
secondary education, the majority (45.5 percent) of
them earn income from their current job, 31 percent
are without any income, while 18.5 percent get
income from pensions. As much as 55 percent of
the population with college and university education
earns income from their current job, a quarter from
pensions and 12 percent do not have any income at
all.10F10F11
There are no major regional differences in
relation to sources of labour income.
More than 52 percent of people aged 15+ who
are living below poverty line have no labour-related
income. Only 21 percent of the poor get income
from a main job.
From 2002 to 2007 the average employees’
labour-related income from main job increased by
2.5 times. Nominally it grew at an impressive
average annual rate of 19.6 percent. The actual
growth during the five years (following deflation
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based on the Cost of Living Index)11F11F was 43
percent.
There are significant differences in average
incomes from main job. In relation to education
level, the salaries of those with college and
university education are 2.7 times higher than the
average income of those with a lower level of
education. The salaries in urban areas are 49
percent higher than the salaries in other areas. The
average salary for women is lower than the average
salary for men by 9 percent. Regionally, the
average salaries in Belgrade are 50 percent higher
than average salaries in other regions. There are no
significant differences in the level of average
salaries between the other regions.
Table 9.11. Discouraged people by age and previous employment experience, LSMS 2007 (percent)
Age
Total 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55- 64 65+
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
No employment experience 35.5 96.1 62.3 25.4 24.0 2.9 19.8
Have employment experience 64.5 3.9 37.7 74.6 76.0 97.1 80.2
Table 9.12. Average income (dinar) and index of nominal and actual income based on current and
previous work
2002 2007
Nominal
Index 2007/2002
Actual
Labour-related income 9132 22466 246.0 144.3
Income from main job 8978 21929 244.3 143.3
Pension 6021 13875 230.4 135.2
Age 6092 14743 242.0 142.0
Disability 5364 13331 248.5 145.8
Family 4321 9445 218.6 128.2
Foreign 27215 30128 110.7 64.9
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