Youth Center Borderless YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IS IT OUR

Youth Center Borderless “YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT!” IS IT OUR JOB TO FIND A SOLUTION? Msc. Xhenisa Shehu Head of Marketing Department

Executive Summary • This presentation aims to demonstrate the importance of understanding youth unemployment as a global emergency. • During this presentation we will have the opportunity to analyze causes and consequences of youth unemployment in Albania as a case study and which could be the potencial solutions.

Content of the presentation Introduction Understanding youth unemployment Case study today Youth unemployment in Albania Responsible Factors & stakeholders for conseguences youth unemployment and perspectives. Finding solutions where the problem is us. Conclusions and Recomandations

Definition of youth unepmloyment Youth unemployment is the unemployment of young people, defined by the United Nations as 15– 24 years old. An unemployed person is someone who does not have A JOB but is actively seeking work.

Understanding and measuring youth unepmloyment unemployed Unemployment rate = labor force x 100 65 P O P U L A T I O N Employment rate = 100% - Unemployment rate Youth Unemployment rate = Young unemployed x 100 Young labor force P O P. O V E R 15 Unemployment L A B O R F O R C E Youth Unemployment 15 -24 Young Youth unemployment rate in Albania is 33. 8%

YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT: A GLOBAL EMERGENCY! • Globally, over 75 million youth were unemployed at the end of 2010. [1] Reasons for and rates of youth unemployment vary across national contexts. • Official rates in the early 2010 s decade ranged from under ten percent in Germany, Vietnam, Sierra Leone and Cuba to around fifty percent in countries including Armenia, Macedonia, South Africa, and Spain. Furlong, Andy (2012). Youth Studies

Global Conseguences of long- time unemployment FROM LOSING SKILLZ TO REVOLUTION • After long-term unemployment, youth are in danger of losing skills, connections to their industry, and desire to work long into the future. • After a period of unemployment during a recession, the individual will find it difficult to find work once the economy improves because they have a large gap in their work history. • Youth unemployment has many long-term consequences for the individual and for their country. • For some countries, high youth unemployment causes youth to leave the country in search of employment. [18 • High youth unemployment has led to social unrest and political revolutions. The Arab Spring movement and the protests in Greece are recent examples of this.

Conseguences of long- time unemployment

Types of unemployment 1. 2. 3. 4. Frictional Structural Seasonal Cyclycal Out of the In the labour force

Case Study What’s the actual situation of youth unemployment in Albania?

Statics Source: Data from Albania Living Standards Measurement Survey (2008)

Key labour market indicators by age and sex, 2011 (percentage) Age groups Participation rate Unemployment rate Employment rate All 15 - 64 68. 2 13. 9 58. 7 15 - 29 54. 5 21. 5 42. 8 30 - 64 76. 3 10. 7 68. 1 Man 15 - 64 76. 1 13. 8 65. 6 15 - 29 62. 1 22. 7 51. 8 30 - 64 84. 8 9. 7 76. 6 Woman 15 - 64 60. 3 14. 1 51. 8 15 - 29 46. 5 19. 8 37. 3 30 - 64 68. 2 11. 9 60. 0

Factors affecting youth unemployment in Albania Economical factors Political -top political priorities by the year 2020 to decrase youth unemployment - Polls, elections (priorities) -Institutional determinants -Fighting corruption -Approach to europian standarts -Legal issues that help reducing the gender wage gaps, marginalized groups. -Fighting corrupston (pol+leg) -economic conditions to study further especially in rural areas. -less oppportunities toward training, employment etc. -economic crisis, inflation, FACTORS AFFECTING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT In ALBANIA (PEST Model) Legal issues Sociodemographic changes -moval toward cities/ leaving rural areas, less job opportunities for urban youngsters , universities etc -Lek Dukagjini Canoon issues(Isolation of youngsters) -Returned emigrants etc Technological changes -new emegring jobs like IT specialist, ingeniers, graphic design etc. Leaving without job other proffesions

WHOSE JOB IS TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT? MINISTERIES Public institutions Employment agencies, carrier offices YOUNGSTERS STAKEHOLDERS PRIVATE ENTERPRISES Educational institutions Training of young employees EU PROGRAMS, YOUTH IN ACTION, ERASMUS PLUS ETC. Domestic and foregin ORGANIZATIONS

The new management plan of the Ministery of Youth and Social Wellfare defines “Promoting Social Inclusion and Territorial Cohesion” as its top strategic priority by the year 2020 Challenges Targets 2020 - Limited access of rural areas residents to training and employment services. - Limited access of vulnerble women and men, roma and people with disabilities to training and employment programmes Inadequate range and scope of employment services targeting vulnerabl idividuals and rural areas. - Weak coodination between passive and active employment measures - Limited support to social entrepreneurship as instruments for inclusion and empowerment. - Inadequate coverage of ocial assistance for eligible individuals. -Decrease the long term unemployment rate for woman to 61, 0% and for men to 59% of total unemployment. -Decrese the youth unemployment rate (15 -24 years old) for young females from 33. 8% to 25. 0% and for young males from 43. 6% to 35. 0%. -Reduce the gender wage gap in 4 percentage point; -Raise the share of social assisance beneficiaries reffered to employment promotion programmes, -Increase annually around 1 percentage point the number of women and men covered by social and health insurance

CONCLUSION & RECOMENDATION Finding solutions to youth unemployment when the problem is exactly, the youngsters! 1. Education is not enough to get hired, = if you don’t have a degree you dont get hired”. . -Not prepared for the market - Skillz gap -Don’t know where and how to look for a job -Low self-esteem SOLUTION 1. 2. 3. 4. INOVATION OPTIMISM ADAPTATION VITALITY “Only the owner can get the donkey out of the soil”

CONCLUSION & RECOMENDATION • Businesses today don’t do anymore what they used to do before to young staff: train them. Because of the costs especially in the period of recession when “time is money” is worth more than before. • Usually businesses try to hire people with experience or already trained, if they don’t find them, they train them, motivate them, raise their wages according to their growth and they build trustful staff in the company etc. that’s is supposed to be the philosophy but in reality it doesn’t work like this.

Conclusions & Recomandation • • • Prividing the right Statistics on levels and trends in educational attainment of the labour force can help the coutries to achieve social and economic goals especially to decrease youth unemployment. Having the right statistics helps to: Support analysis of the influence of skill levels on economic outcomes and the success of different policies in raising the educational level of the workforce; Give an indication of the degree of inequality in the distribution of education resources between groups of the population, particularly between men and women, and within and between countries; and Provide an indication of the skills of the existing labor force, with a view to discovering untapped potential.

Conclusions & Recomandation • As a main recomendation would be the need to promote investments in education for different population groups; • I would recomend to change the slogan that says: “if u don’t have a degree u dont get hired”. • Involving more the private sector, enterprises as the main actors who provide job opportunities, internship and training opportunities for youngsters.

Recommendation BECOME ACTIVE BUILD SELF ESTEEM Volunteer Jobs THE CURRENT AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS? Proffesional internships Contests on Youth entrepreneurship Formal, non-formal training, profesional training, free seminars

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Video References • Youth unemployment a global emergency https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=0 VN 3 XBXa. I 9 Q • Unemployment & Find a jobs https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=K 1 J 3 di. Js. D 9 U • Youth Volunteerism https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=q 4 je 9 N 26 ou. Y