Regional Analysis of Youth Unemployment in Serbia

Jelena Stanković; Marija Džunić; Vesna Janković-Milić

Authors

Jelena Stanković
Marija Džunić
Vesna Janković-Milić

Keywords:

youth unemployment, regional disparities, economic crisis

Abstract

The youth unemployment represents a global economic and social issue, since the rate of youth unemployment has been consistently higher than the rate of the adult population unemployment for several decades. Especially after the global economic crisis, the position of young people on the labour market has further deteriorated, due to the increasing youth unemployment rates causing severe problems of poverty and social exclusion for the
young. In Serbia, problems of poor economic performance of a transition economy, along with political instability, regional disparities and deficits of the education system, the youth unemployment is becoming an alarming problem. The aim of the paper is to present the situation of youth unemployment across the regions of Serbia, compared to the indicators of economic performance in order to assess the relation between youth unemployment rates and the most important objective indicators of social and economic development. The results of the research have been obtained by using relevant statistical methods such as descriptive statistics and analysis of variance.

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