YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Education, training and learning mobility  101 rates, as they tend to avoid various ‘local’ labour market problems or constraints. In Slovenia, the post-2010 period was marked by economic recession. As elsewhere in Europe, this period in Slovenia was characterised by a high unemployment rate and an ‘exodus’, especially of young people. In the period between 2011 and 2018, emigration increased steadily and con- sisted mainly of secondary school graduates in the 20-24 age group and post-secondary and higher education graduates in the 25-29 group (SORS, 2021). Thus, in 2017 –when emigrationwas most intense – almost 3,000 people emigrated from Slovenia, 56% of whomhad tertiary educa- tion (ibid.).