A total of 2,593 permits were issued, which is by 1.33 % less than in the year of 2016.
Most of the foreigners working in BiH are from Serbia (26.19 %), Turkey (14.58 %), Croatia (6.25 %), China (5.01 %) and Kuwait (4.24 %).
The largest increase in the number of issued work permits in the total amount of 66.04 % in comparison to the previous year was registered among citizens of Egypt, while the largest decrease (23.98 %) was recorded among citizens of China.
The highest number of work permits in the year of 2017 was issued in the sector of trade, a total of 616 of them (23.80 %), 312 in the processing industry (14.30 %), 306 in the real estate sector (11.80 %) and 236 in education (9.10 %).
Occupancy rate of quota for the total number of issued work permits that were issued to foreign nationals, in comparison to the quota in 2017, is 55 %, while in the year of 2016 it amounted to 67 %.
The share of the annual number of employed foreigners in relation to the average number of employed persons in BiH was between 0.3 % and 0.4 % in the last five years, which shows that the employment of foreign labour force has no quantitative impact on the labour market in our country.
(Source: klix.ba)