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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Understanding and measuring youth unepmloyment
unemployed
labor force
Unemployment rate =
x 100
Employment rate = 100% - Unemployment rate
Young unemployed
Young labor force
Youth Unemployment rate =
x 100 65
Unemployment
Youth
Unemployment P O P. V E R 15 P O U L A T I N
L F
A O
B R
O C
R E
15-24
Young
Youth unemployment rate in Albania is 33.8%

6. 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 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

7. 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.

8. Conseguences of long- time unemployment

9. Conseguences of long- time unemployment

10. Types of unemployment Frictional Structural Seasonal Cyclycal
Out of the labour force
In the labour force

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

12. Staticstics
Source: Data from Albania Living Standards Measurement Survey (2008)

13. Key labour market indicators by age and sex, 2011 (percentage)
Age groups
Participation rate
Unemployment rate
Employment rate
All
68.2
13.9
58.7
54.5
21.5
42.8
76.3
10.7
68.1
Man
76.1
13.8
65.6
62.1
22.7
51.8
84.8
9.7
76.6
Woman
60.3
14.1
46.5
19.8
37.3
11.9
60.0

14. Factors affecting youth unemployment in Albania
In 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,
-top political priorities by the year 2020 to decrase youth unemployment
- Polls, elections (priorities)
Institutional determinants
Fighting corruption
-moval toward cities/ leaving rural areas, less job opportunities for urban youngsters , universities etc
Lek Dukagjini Canoon issues(Isolation of youngsters)
Returned emigrants etc
Approach to europian standarts
Legal issues that help reducing the gender wage gaps, marginalized groups.
Fighting corrupston (pol+leg)
-new emegring jobs like IT specialist, ingeniers, graphic design etc. Leaving without job other proffesions

15. WHOSE JOB IS TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT?
Public institutions
MINISTERIES
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

16. 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

17. “Only the owner can get the donkey out of the soil”
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
INOVATION
OPTIMISM
ADAPTATION
VITALITY
“Only the owner can get the donkey out of the soil”

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. THE CURRENT AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS?
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

22. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!
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23. Video References
Youth unemployment a global emergency
Unemployment & Find a jobs
Youth Volunteerism