Quality of life in the Western Balkans and Türkiye in 2024

Weiss, Johannes; de Boer, Mattanja; Ahrendt, Daphne

Áttekintés

Hamarosan megjelenik

Quality of life in the Western Balkans and Türkiye in 2024

Várható megjelenés: December 2025

This factsheet presents findings from the Living and Working in the Western Balkans and Türkiye (LW-WBT) Survey, which was commissioned by Eurofound and conducted in autumn 2024. It provides a brief overview of four dimensions of quality of life in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Türkiye – health and well-being, overall life satisfaction, material living conditions and perceived quality of society. The analyses reveal significant disparities between different groups of people with regard to many of the indicators of quality of life. The results reinforce the importance of financial stability and the need for targeted policy responses to address inequality, reinforce social cohesion and improve living standards in the region.

Kutatási jelentés

Hamarosan megjelenik

December 2025

Job quality and working conditions in the Western Balkans

Johannes Weissand 2 other authors

This report documents working conditions and job quality in the Western Balkans, drawing on data from the 2021 European Working Conditions Telephone Survey. It provides new regional insights into European working conditions and aims to raise awareness among policymakers, social partners, researchers and the wider public in the region of job quality and its importance for workers’ well-being. While the region still lags behind the EU in most job quality indicators, particularly with regard to gender equality in the workplace, the report paints a complex and diverse picture of job quality across various dimensions and countries. A region-specific combination of job demands and job resources found in several dimensions of job quality highlights some common aspects of the region’s work culture. In other cases, differences are more pronounced, even between jobs and workers in culturally close countries. Despite these challenges, many jobs in the Western Balkans demonstrate remarkable resourcefulness. With the right policies, this potential can be realised more effectively.