标题：LABOUR MARKET, INCOMES AND
THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET
期刊名称：Georgian Economic Trends
印刷版ISSN：1512-0201
电子版ISSN：1512-018X
出版年度：2004
卷号：1
页码：50-50
出版社：Georgian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre
摘要：The labour market situation remains largely unfavourable and unstable. Whilst unemployment rate
figures are generally in line with those for transition economies and, if taken alone, may even suggest
optimistic conclusions, the overall picture is flawed by persistent underemployment, widespread
hidden and disguised unemployment and salaries falling way below the minimum subsistence level.
All the above-mentioned long-term labour market problems adversely effect the poverty situation that
is continuously reflected in painful declines in living standards experienced by increasingly larger
numbers of households. Most of the working age population is either underemployed or nonemployed.
New stable jobs are rarely created. The labour market is dominated by agricultural
subsistence self-employment. A large portion of the employed are engaged in unofficial and
unregistered low-paying largely self-employment activities. Just around 20 per cent of the working
age population have waged or salaried jobs and the vast majority of those employed are hardly
earning a living.
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