Labour migrations, Slovenia, 2006 – provisional data

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More labour migrants between municipalities
Due to rapid industrialisation and better traffic connections, the number of labour migrants between municipalities increased both between neighbouring as well as more distant municipalities. In 2006, 363,882 labour migrants between municipalities were registered in our country, which represents nearly half of all persons in paid employment and self-employed persons. Since 2000 – when we started to compile labour migration statistics – the sex ratio of labour migrants has remained almost the same. The share of male labour migrants has been increasing (at the end of 2006 it was 56.5% of all labour migrants), while the share of female labour migrants has been decreasing (in the same period to 43.5%).

Fewer jobs within municipalities of residence
The share of persons in paid employment and self-employed persons whose workplace is in the municipality of their residence is getting smaller. At the end of 2006, 434,215 people worked and lived in the same municipality, which was 54.2% of all persons in paid employment and self-employed persons. Compared to 2005, the share went down by 0.7 of a percentage point, which means that ever more persons in paid employment commute to work outside the municipality of their residence. In 2006 the highest shares of persons in paid employment and self-employed persons whose workplace was in the municipality of their residence were registered in Ljubljana (87.2%), Novo mesto (81.1%) and Maribor (79.4%). For example, out of 113,029 persons in paid employment and self-employed persons in municipality Ljubljana 14,438 commuted to work outside the capital city while 98,591 did not.

In Slovenia only 13 municipalities very labour-oriented
The ratio between the number of jobs and the number of persons in paid employment and self-employed persons in a municipality shows surplus or lack of jobs in the municipality. If the number of jobs in a municipality is at least 16% greater than the number of people living in it, such a municipality is very labour-oriented. In 2006, 13 municipalities were very labour-oriented: Trzin, Murska Sobota, Šempeter – Vrtojba, Nazarje, Ljubljana, Kidričevo, Zreče, Celje, Maribor, Ptuj, Novo mesto, Velenje and Slovenj Gradec. The municipality that particularly stands out is Trzin, which is very attractive for employment since it has three times more workplaces than persons in paid employment and self-employed persons living in it. Among very labour-oriented municipalities are all urban municipalities except Koper, Nova Gorica and Kranj, which was in 2005 among very labour-oriented municipalities but in 2006 fell into the category of moderately labour-oriented municipalities.

Litija the only predominantly residential administrative unit
Observing labour migration at a level of a larger territorial unit, i.e. administrative unit, at the end of 2006 most of them were moderately or weakly residential. Litija was the only predominantly residential administrative unit in the country since it employs only about a half of persons in paid employment and self-employed persons who live in Litija, while the other half commute to work outside this administrative unit.