Half a million working-age Croatians are not looking for work at all, and employers are barely finding workers

500,000 Working Age Croats Not Even Seeking Work? - Total Croatia

April the 23rd, 2025 – 500,000 working age Croats are allegedly not even seeking work, despite employers scrambling to fill positions and being forced to acquire foreign labour. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Josipa Ban writes, as employers continue to struggle to find workers, being instead pushed to import them, the domestic market is home to an entire army of inactive working-age people. Close to half a million working age Croats seem to neither be work…

More than 1.5 million citizens are inactive and stay away from the labor market.