O Kosovo, you beautiful: Over 60% of citizens are not economically active, unemployment hits young people

Kosovo's Statistics Agency published the results of this year's First quarter Workers Power Survey.

The poll has expanded to 452 recording districts across the country's entire territory, where 4004 family economies, selected according to the method, were surveyed by the framework of the 2011 population census, Family Economics and Banes.

According to results released from this publication, two-thirds of the population in Kosovo are a working-age population. Work age populations include 15-64 years of age.

Of the working age population, 61.3 % are not economically active, which means they are not employed and have not been active in seeking employment over the past four weeks or are unwilling to start work within two weeks.

Within the working age population, the rate of participation in the workforce is 38.7%.

The employment rate at the Workers Power Survey for the first quarter of 2019 is 28.2%.

The highest employment is in men 43%, while female employment is 13.3%.

Women are employed, mainly in the education, trade and health care sectors with 54.6 of them.

While males are mainly employed in the trade, construction and production sectors, with 43.8%.

According to the first quarter of the 2019 AFP in Kosovo, there have been 125,717 people aged 15-

64, who were unemployed, 88,915 of whom were male and 36,802 female. The unemployment rate was 26.9 %, higher in women by 31.6% than in men, 25.4 %

Youth unemployment is too high in Kosovo. In the first quarter of 2019, young people in Kosovo were twice as likely to be unemployed as adults. Unemployment is higher in young women (60.8 %) than in young men (46.0%).

Nearly a third (29) of persons aged 15 to 24 years in Kosovo were not in education, employment or training. This figure is 30.3 % for young women compared to 27.8 for young men.

Economic sectors, leading by employment, continue to be: Trade by 16.5%, construction by 11.5%, education by 11.2%, as well as production by 11.0%.

Other sectors, however, participate at a lower rate in employment.

As for employees with contracts, it turns out that 39.1% of employees have permanent contracts in their main work, while 60.9% have temporary contracts.

Net salaries of most employees were between 300 euros and 400 euros a month. Gender differences have been observed with 6.5 % higher in women than in men.