The paper focuses on some aspects of the relationship between employment and housing in the case of Slovenia. The development in these two areas is found to be interdependent and related to the pre-existing social structures, which vary across European societies. The country's low housing mobility is highlighted, along with how the Slovenian population is strongly embedded in local environments and networks, leading to both reduced costs of welfare provision and the stronger dependence on local employers and labour markets. This feature would help cope with the social costs of the recent economic recession, yet there are many dilemmas regard its role in the expansion of post-industrial modes of production as well as in the future development of welfare systems and their sustainability in terms of finances and inter-generational relations.
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