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The Labour Divide
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Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

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Table of Contents
I. Battling Unemployment
II. The Labour Divide - I. Employment and Unemployment
III. The Labour Divide - II. Migration and Brain Drain
IV. The Labour Divide - III. Entrepreneurship and Workaholism
V. The Labour Divide - IV. The Unions after Communism
VI. The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership
VII. The Labour Divide - VI. The Future of Work
VIII. Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity
Battling Unemployment A First Draft Report Presented to the Minister
of Labour and Social Policy By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Economic Advisor to
the Government of the Republic of Macedonia
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia September, 1999 Contents I.
Recommendations II. The Facts III. Bibliography IV. Appendix – The
Keynesian view of Unemployment, Stabilization Theory and Full
Employment Budgeting V. Appendix – Unemployment throughout the
World (Excerpts from an academic article by R.di Tella and R.
MacCullouch, 4/1999)

The author wishes to thank Mr. Rafael Di Tella from Harvard
University (Harvard Business School) for his assistance in sharing with
the author the article he has co-authored with Mr. R. MacCullouch of
Bonn University.
The author wishes to thank Ms. Lidija Rangelovska for sharing her
Country Assessment Survey results for Macedonia with the author. Her
survey was prepared in collaboration with the Harvard Institute of
International Development (HIID).

I. Recommendations
Get the Real Picture
No one in Macedonia knows the real picture. How many are employed
and not reported or registered? How many are registered as
unemployed but really have a job? How many are part time workers –
as opposed to full time workers? How many are officially employed (de
jure) – but de facto unemployed or severely underemployed? How

many are on “indefinite” vacations, on leave without pay, etc.?
The Statistics Bureau must be instructed to make the gathering and
analysis of data regarding the unemployed (through household surveys
and census, if necessary) – a TOP PRIORITY.
A limited amnesty should be declared by the state on violations of
worker registration by employers. All employers should be given 30