The current economic crisis has put many private companies, but also state-owned enterprises and other public sector entities under pressure to cut costs. Many of them reduced employment, and/or wages of their employees. In addition to these negative effects, often discussed in public debates, there may have been changes in other employment characteristics, such as full-time and part-time employment, employment for an unspecified vs. fixed period of time, number of trainees, number of hours worked (total, actual, unpaid, overtime), etc. These changes may have differed across different groups of employees as distinguished by gender, age or educational attainment. Also, there may be differences depending on the type of ownership (private vs. state ownership) or severity of economic downturn in specific economic activities.
The goal of this research was to analyse developments in employment and employment characteristics described above, using sectoral data for Croatia between 2009 and 2012.