## Republic of Kosovo: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, December 23, 2024_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: December 23, 2024
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400297991.002

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### Overview
- This Selected Issues paper highlights recent trends in the Kosovo labor market and emigration.
- Like other Western Balkan countries, Kosovo experienced a sharp decline in population over the previous decade, as emigration increased.
- The paper uses a structural model of the labor market and migration to examine the potential impact of further EU integration.

### Major findings from the structural model and scenarios
- Lower migration costs associated with further EU integration hurt the economy.
- Productivity convergence brought on by EU integration has an offsetting impact by:
  - increasing wages,
  - lowering unemployment, and
  - increasing immigration.
- Policy simulations indicate policymakers have a diverse set of tools to boost potential and support the labor market, and different policy instruments tend to produce similar macroeconomic impacts.

### Policy simulations and recommendations
- Policy tools examined:
  - structural reforms,
  - active labor market policies,
  - business support, and
  - labor participation support.
- Key policy implications:
  - While the policies target various stages of the labor market, they have similar macroeconomic impacts.
  - Policymakers should focus on policies with the largest potential impact relative to the cost of implementation.
  - Policies should be combined with careful monitoring and updating to ensure they remain effective and efficient.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subject: Digitalization, Expenditure, Labor, Labor markets, Pension spending, Pensions, Public employment, Technology
- Keywords: Digitalization, ECB monetary policy PASSTHROUGH, ECB policy rate Passthrough, EU integration, Europe, gender wage gap, Global, Labor markets, Pension spending, Pensions, Public employment, wage gender gap, Western Europe, women wage

*Source: Republic of Kosovo: Selected Issues (IMF Staff Country Reports 2024, 365).*

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