The role of active labor market policies in increasing youth employment

Abstract

One of the main problems facing Kosovo today is youth unemployment. The main purpose of this paper is to study the role of active labor market policies in increasing youth employment. Work data has been collected from various sources. For the theoretical part, data are obtained from academic literature related to active labor market policies that apply in all other countries of the world, while for the practical part the data are obtained from performance reports of the Public Employment Service, Surveys of Power Workers, published by the Kosovo Agency of Statistics, as well as reports from other institutions that promote active labor market policies for the integration of young people into employment. The conclusion of the paper is that active labor market policies are the best mechanism for channeling and streamlining state intervention in the labor market with clear goals; Kosovo has created a few years of practice in implementing active labor market policies, but this practice should be strengthened to further develop.