Youth Center Borderless
“YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT!”
IS IT OUR JOB TO FIND A SOLUTION?
Youth Center Borderless
“YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT!”
IS IT OUR JOB TO FIND A SOLUTION?
Msc. Xhenisa ShehuHead of Marketing
Department
Msc. Xhenisa ShehuHead 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 today
Case study - Youth unemployment in Albania Factors & conseguences
Responsible stakeholders for youth unemployment and perspectives.
Finding solutions where the problem is us.
Conclusions and Recomandations
Definition of youth unepmloyment
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.
POPULATION
POP.OVER 15
Unemployment
65
Youth Unemployment
15-24Young
L FA OB RO CR E
Understanding and measuring youth unepmloyment
Understanding and measuring youth unepmloyment
Unemployment rate = x 100unemployed labor force Employment rate = 100% - Unemployment rate
x 100Young unemployed Young labor force
Youth Unemployment rate =
Youth unemployment rate in Albania is 33.8%
• 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 2010s 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
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT: A GLOBAL EMERGENCY!
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.
Global Conseguences of long- time
unemployment
Types of unemployment
In the labour force
Out of the labour force
1. Frictional2. Structural3. Seasonal4. Cyclycal
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 UNEMPLOY
MENTIn
ALBANIA(PEST
Model)
Economical factors
Socio-demographic changes
Technological changes
Legal issues
Political
-economic conditions to study further especially in rural areas.-less oppportunities toward training, employment etc.-economic crisis, inflation,
-moval toward cities/ leaving rural areas, less job opportunities for urban youngsters , universities etc- Lek Dukagjini Canoon
issues(Isolation of youngsters)- Returned emigrants etc
-top political priorities by the year 2020 to decrase youth unemployment- Polls, elections (priorities)- Institutional determinants- Fighting corruption
-new emegring jobs like IT specialist, ingeniers, graphic design etc. Leaving without job other proffesions
- Approach to europian standarts - Legal issues that help reducing
the gender wage gaps, marginalized groups.
- Fighting corrupston (pol+leg)
Factors affecting youth unemployment in Albania
STAKEHOLDERSYOUNGSTER
S
Domestic and foregin
ORGANIZATIONS
Educational institutions
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
S
Employment agencies,
carrier offices
Public institutionsMINISTERIES
EU PROGRAMS, YOUTH IN ACTION,
ERASMUS PLUS ETC.
WHOSE JOB IS TO FIND A SOLUTIONFOR YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT?
Training of young employees
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 programmesInadequate 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”..
1. INOVATION2. OPTIMISM3. ADAPTATION4. VITALITY
SOLUTION-Not prepared for the market - Skillz gap-Don’t know where and how to look for a job-Low self-esteem
“Only the owner can get the donkey out of the soil”
• 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.
CONCLUSION & RECOMENDATION
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.
THE CURRENT AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS?
Formal, non-formal training, profesional training,
free seminars
Volunteer Jobs
Contests on Youth entrepreneurship
Proffesional internships
Recommendation BECOME ACTIVE
BUILD SELF ESTEEM
Video References
• Youth unemployment a global emergency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VN3XBXaI9Q
• Unemployment & Find a jobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1J3diJsD9U
• Youth Volunteerism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4je9N26ouY