PROCJENA EKONOMSKIH EFEKATA ZABRANE RADA NEDJELJOM U FEDERACIJI BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE SUNDAY WORK BAN IN THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: In December 2023, the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted a new law on internal trade to the parliamentary procedure. Within the aforementioned law, two articles refer to the regulation of work on Sundays. Unlike the Republic of Croatia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina there were no multi-year discussions on this topic. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical framework on the subject of banning work on Sundays, and to evaluate the economic effects of this ban in the entity area of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the scientific scenario method. In doing so, the scenario method is based on the application of an internally consistent view of what the economic future of this entity could be in the event of the application of the aforementioned law. By assessing the impact on five factors, the results in the paper show that there could be a disproportionate negative impact, to the detriment of small traders. The effects on employment, prices and turnover are less obvious. The limitations of the research are that this is just the beginning of discussions and that there are not many studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina that deal with this topic. The work represents a pioneering attempt to present the basic economic circumstances of the ban on working on Sundays in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is precisely in the aforementioned that the greatest contribution of this work is made.

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