类似地，退休金和福利计划的公共融资需要向劳动力征税，而该地区大部分地区却饱受失业率高企之苦；西巴尔干地区几乎没有工作岗位可用。
Similarly, while public financing of pensions and welfare programs is dependent on taxing labor, much of the region currently suffers from high rates of unemployment; in the Western Balkans, there are nearly no jobs, or none at all.