YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

122 The trends and changes described above affect young people (Klanjšek and Kobše, 2019), whose relatively weaker position in the labour market has been a fact since the recession of the early 1980s in the US and West- ern Europe (Furlong and Cartmel, 2007: 36-37). Some authors (cf. Ignja- tović and Trbanc, 2009) refer to this as the ‘age segregation of the labour market’, which, as can be seen from Figure 1, is also still part of the Slove- nian labour market. More specifically, despite the encouraging trends of the last few years, which have brought the survey unemployment rate among young people down to a record low (2019: 8.1%), it is still signifi- cantly higher than the overall unemployment rate (4.2%). The current situation suggests that official unemployment figures for 2020 are likely to be significantly worse than they were for 2019. Figure 3.1: Unemployment rate by age group (15-25 and 25-74) and country (EU-27 and Slovenia) 2006-2019. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 EU-27 (15 - 24) EU-27 (25 - 74) Slovenia (15 - 24) Slovenia (25 - 74) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Source: Eurostat – Population and social conditions/Employment and unemployment (Labour Force Survey).