Issue 148: Youth Employment in Georgia
01-Aug-2024
Our latest publication examines youth employment in Georgia from 2020 to 2023.
The successful participation of youth (those aged 15-24) in Georgia’s labor market is vital for the country’s socioeconomic development. It promotes social integration, reduces poverty, and boosts economic productivity.
During 2020-2023, the contribution of youth to the Georgian labor market declined, even though during this time the proportion of youth among the total population aged 15 and older remained stable. Decreasing participation of youth in the labor market is driven by both emigration and extended education periods.
In 2023, approximately one out of every five young persons in Georgia neither worked nor studied, while only 7% of them managed to work and study simultaneously.
Please refer to the full publication for more insights.
Issue 147: Georgia in International Rankings
03-Jun-2024
This publication analyzes where Georgia stands in comparison to Moldova and Ukraine, two other countries with candidate status for EU membership, and evaluates how these three countries are performing relative to EU member states across several key indices and rankings to gain a comprehensive understanding of Georgia’s position regarding European integration.
The most significant gap between Georgia and the EU average was identified in the area of Democracy, according to the analysis. Today, this concern is heightened as democracy in Georgia is considered to be under threat as the Parliament of Georgia has passed a law on the transparency of foreign influence.
Issue 146: Emigration and the Effect of Remittances on the Georgian Economy (2013-2022)
20-Nov-2023
Georgia is considered a country of emigration. Since the mid-1990s, emigration from the country has been largely defined as labor migration, with Georgian citizens seeking better prospects abroad to ease persistent socio-economic challenges at home, including high unemployment, widespread poverty, and low wages.
A distinctive feature of this trend is that a significant proportion of Georgian labor emigrants choose to reside and work illegally in their host countries. Meanwhile, for Georgians who opt to emigrate, their primary motivation for doing so is to earn enough to support their families back in Georgia to whom they send remittances to alleviate economic hardships.
This bulletin discusses Georgia’s emigration trends and the role of remittances in the Georgian economy at macro and micro levels over the last decade.
Issue 145: Household Income and Income Inequality in Georgia (2013-2022)
19-Sep-2023
This bulletin provides a comprehensive understanding of household income distribution in Georgia. It presents an analysis of income inequality beyond the traditional Gini coefficient by examining additional dimensions of income distribution. More precisely, the bulletin compares the income of different segments of society, household income in rural and urban areas, and between regions.
Issue 144: Georgia - Labor Market Overview
18-May-2023
Notwithstanding the recent positive tendencies, considerable challenges persist in the Georgian labor market. In this bulletin, we address several of these pressing concerns and provide a comprehensive overview of the labor market including:
Labor market key indicators
The Beveridge curve analysis
Employment by economic sectors and employed foreign nationals
Salaries of paid employees
Vacancies published on Jobs.ge
Issue 143: Subsistence allowance in Georgia (2018-2022)
11-Apr-2023
Socio-economic problems continue to represent a significant challenge for Georgia. Specifically, in 2021, 17.5% of the Georgian population fell under the absolute poverty line. By and large, different states typically offer various forms of social assistance (including subsistence allowance) to help the most vulnerable within society.
In Georgia, the subsistence allowance program provides financial aid to the country’s poorest families, whose rating score is less than 120,001. The rating score is determined by the social services agency and reflects the family’s income and assets. The lower the score, the poorer the family. However, recent studies have indicated that this program does not help beneficiaries to get out of poverty and that it instead encourages them to maintain a low income to remain eligible to receive the allowance. To address such issues, starting from March 2022, the Georgian government implemented a wide-scale public works employment program for the country’s socially vulnerable citizens. It should be noted that the persons involved in the program will maintain the status of socially vulnerable for 4 years.
In this newsletter, we take a close look at the dynamics of the population receiving subsistence allowance. Moreover, the trends with respect to the announced working program are also discussed.
Issue 142: Foreign Students and Foreign Language Programs Dynamics in Georgia
15-Mar-2023
In recent years, the number of international students has been increasing worldwide, with their contributions to host countries’ economies growing accordingly, and Georgia is not an exception. As shown in PMC RC’s study, total expenses incurred by foreign students, their foreign relatives, and friends in Georgia in the 2020-2021 academic year exceeded US$132 million. Understanding the dynamics of foreign students and foreign language programs in Georgia is crucial to ensure further growth and investment in the education sector. Therefore, this bulletin overviews the dynamics of foreign students in Georgia and their financial contribution to the country’s education sector.
Issue 141: Youth Employment in Georgia
29-Nov-2022
The successful participation of youth in the Georgian labor market is crucial for not only their own personal wellbeing, but also the prosperity of the country as a whole. Although the broad topic of employment is one of the most discussed issues at the national level in Georgia, the more specific matter of youth employment is afforded relatively little attention. Seeking to address this shortcoming, this bulletin focuses on changes in the Georgian labor market and relevant indicators for the age group of 15-24 in the period of 2017-2021.
Issue 140: Georgia in International Rankings
04-Oct-2022
International rankings and indicators help us to understand and assess how countries are performing in different areas. In this bulletin, Georgia’s positions in international rankings and the dynamics therein are reviewed based on the latest data. Georgia’s positions will also be compared with other Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine, and Belarus).
Issue 139: Emigration and Effect of Remittances on Georgian Economy
13-Sep-2022
Georgia is a country of emigration. Since the mid-1990s, Georgian migration patterns have been characterized as labor emigration driven by socio-economic challenges (high unemployment, poverty, and low salaries). As different studies have indicated, the significant proportion of Georgian labor emigrants reside and work illegally in their host country. The primary motivation for Georgian emigrants is to be able to send money back to their families in Georgia to support them. This bulletin discusses Georgia’s emigration trends and the role of remittances in the Georgian economy on macro and micro levels over the last decade.