More than 70 percent of Kosovo youth want to be employed in the state

Young people in Kosovo are the unemployed in the region, while over 70 per cent of them want to be employed in the public sector, even though most believe that by having family and political ties themselves, you can be part of this sector.

These were the data that came out of publication “The Study for Youth Kosovo 2018-2019”, which was conducted by Friederich Ebert Stiftung and presented at the discussion organised by the National Youth Congress in the Around (not) the implementation of the Labour Law.

Movlyde Hyseni, co-ordinator of programmes at Friederich Ebert Stiftung, said only 23 per cent of young people in Kosovo are satisfied with the education system in Kosovo, but that almost everyone wants to have a faculty degree, since professional schooling does not see employment opportunities.

According to this survey, 43 per cent of young people in Kosovo are unemployed, and lead the region to the unemployment rate.

Public institutions are institutions that Kosovo's young people least trust, and that only by having family and political ties can they find at work in the public sector.

The majority of young people prefer to work in the public sector 70 percent of them love a public sector job, compared with only 23 percent who think they can work in the private sector. The reasons for this are that in the public sector work is safer, wages are fair, we have regular holidays, in the private sector often being violated, no contracts are paid pensions. Young people think that only connected you can come to the workplace if you're a member of a party, you're related to people in power to you can get to a public sector job that's very popular”, she said.

According to the study on Kosovo youth 2018-2019, 50 percent of young people say they will leave Kosovo to find a better job and conditions for life, and there is also a decline in the demand for employment.

Labour Chief Inspector Basri Ibrahimi has requested a rise in social awareness so that no one can accept contract-free employment.

Ibrahim also said that how labour inspectors during 2018 found that 700 workers were not equipped with employment contracts.

<x0). The performance inspectors, of course, have a basic role in monitoring and law enforcement and respecting the rights of the workers, but the job inspector I said that in 2017 we found 700 workers without jobs that I had expected those 700 people coming to work inspectors, we had 1700 complaints last year and that doubled the number of complaints reported in 2017 and tripled in proportion to 2016”, Ibrahim said.

The chairman of the American Economic Ode in Kosovo, Arian Zeka, said that many of the private companies aim to gain, not respect the rights of workers.

According to him, only 5 percent of Kosovo's companies respect the Labour Law until they have stressed that job seekers should refuse to work without employment contracts.

And our active power has marked declines in contrast to what Government and we're promoting as job creation, so it's the opposite, the job force survey also shows there are 10 thousand jobs in 2018 compared to a preliminary year in 2017 with a banal reason... 24;4. 4 is the last time that if we want to prevent the flight of the population by about 35 thousand people in one year is too much for a small country like us, if we want to change that tendency of 55 per cent of young people who want to leave the country, of course everyone gets the burden, it can't only be the state of”, Zeka said.

For publication “Study of the Youth Kosovo 2018-2019” has been polled young people between the ages of 14 and 29.