Podnikanie a nezamestnanosť mládeže v štátoch Európskej únie a v asociovaných krajinách
Youth Enterprise and Youth Unemployment in European Union Member and Associated Countries

Summary/Abstract: Youth Enterprise and Youth Unemployment in European Union Member and Associated Countries. Can East-Central Europe’s youth unemployment be solved by encouraging and assisting those concerned to start their own enterprises? It is argued that in the 1990s youngpeople in the new market economies had exceptional opportunities to succeed in business. However, as the new market economies mature, the young unemployed will become a section of the population least equipped to succeed in business, as is the case across Western Europe. It is further argued that the particular type of young unemployment that has spread in the new market economies will not be solved by creating low quality jobs. Young people expect, and are prepared to wait for, good quality employment. It is concluded that the best hope for matching demand and supply in East-Central Europe’s youth labour markets lies in developing some of the existing microenterprises into quality SMEs. This is the way in which policies towards the self-employed are most likely to contribute to hauling down youth unemployment. Sociológia 2002 Vol 34 (No. 1: 37-46)

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