Youth Unemployment in Economic and Social Crisis
Youth Unemployment in Economic and Social Crisis

Case of Serbia

Summary/Abstract: Youth unemployment has been an important economic and social issue in the last decades but it became of utmost importance during the current economic crisis. Youth employment is particularly vulnerable throughout Europe (compared to other age cohorts), but in Serbia the data have been most unfavorable. The reasons can be found in the overall social and economic crisis and circumstances of post-socialist transformation in Serbia in the last two decades: “the destroyed society”, economic decline and current unfavorable economic trends (as a result of economic crisis). Furthermore, the long-term discrepancy between the education system and the labor market can be seen as one of the most important social factors of massive and long-term youth unemployment.

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