Sekundarni povzetek: |
In the beginning of the year 2009, Slovenia was deeply affected by the economic crisis. The condition of a state was similar to the time of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, when Slovenia lost nearly all Yugoslav economic market. However, at that time (after independence,) Slovenia has managed to recover quickly, which was, sadly, not the case for the year 2009, when, not even the economic revival, could have saved Slovenia; consequently, the effects are still present nowadays. Economic crisis have had the negative consequences of labour market, the group, which is especially economically endangered, is the youth, which suffers the most from the issue of unemployment. They possess the characteristics of lower level of economic activity and noticeably higher level of unemployment rate, in comparison to the older groups of labour force. Currently, it would be hard to state that the youth has a positive future ahead, especially from the employment point of view, and this ought not to be this way, since a successful transition from the educational sphere to labour market should put the youth in an equal economic position in order to become a fair member of society; for the employment assures socio-economic independence. Therefore, the youth should be treated preferentially, thus they should be early introduced into working environment. For the issue of youth unemployment that has been going on for years, we have decided, for our diploma thesis, to study the state of youth unemployment of the youth labour market in Europe and contrast it to Slovenia’s state of unemployment. In the theoretical part, we have defined the characteristics of unemployment and researched its condition of the youth labour market in the European Union and in Slovenia. Further on in the thesis, we have focused on the youth in the range of 15th to 24th year of age. We have defined a positive competitiveness and imperfections of the youth labour market. In the empirical part, we have examined the youth unemployment in the European Union with the help of statistical data analysis. Countries were divided into two groups, those that have higher rates of youth unemployment and those with lower rates. Firstly, we have established that the rate of youth unemployment in Slovenia highly exceed a total unemployment rate, which supports our first formed hypotheses. Furthermore, we have determined that youth unemployment rate, in the examined period of time, in Slovenia is mostly below the EU average, which supports our second formed hypotheses. Lower youth unemployment rate in the EU does not come out as a positive datum, however we have to consider the fact that unemployment rate in Slovenia has been constantly getting closer to the EU average, in the last few years. In the year 2013, the rate was only two percentage points lower that the EU average. In the detailed analysis we have discovered that, since the economic crisis, the younger males carry the highest unemployment rate; both in European Union and in Slovenia. Along with that, we have disproved our third formed hypotheses, which primarily indicated that women carried higher unemployment rate, when comparing the two genders. Despite the fact that there clearly exists the long going issue of youth unemployment, we have to emphasize that the situation of youth labour market has been improving from the year 2013 to 2014, according to a general decrease of youth unemployment rate all over the European Union. With the help of suitable programs, measurements and the economic growth we shall be on course to eliminate the issues of youth unemployment. |