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

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

Conseguences of long- time unemployment

Conseguences of long- time unemployment

Types of unemployment

In the labour force

Out of the labour force

1. Frictional2. Structural3. Seasonal4. Cyclycal

Case Study

What’s the actual situation of youth unemployment in

Albania?

Staticstics

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 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

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!

It’s youth time!Become active NOW!

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