Creating a single labour market in the framework of the Open Balkan initiative is useful, but also has limited scope. It will contribute to better balancing supply and demand in certain ’convertible’ market segments – from construction to the IT and tourism sectors
Given the structure of the labour markets of Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania, the effects of opening up the labour markets of these three countries to the region will have a negligible impact, most likely in the domain of less skilled jobs in the construction and services sectors. The key issues of the brain-drain and the creating of education systems capable of producing a skilled workforce for the 21st century will remain just as important as they were before the unique Open Balkan ID number became oper ational.