YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Employment and entrepreneurship  147 education required and the education obtained can be found among those who have completed secondary school and are still in the educa- tion process (i.e. students; 59% of them have jobs that require lower edu- cation). This is further confirmed by the fact that the proportion of those who are not in an educational or training programme and at the same time claim that their employment to be in line with the formal level of education attained is quite similar, irrespective of the formal level of ed- ucation – 67% of vocational secondary schools (2, 3 year programme), 56% for 4-year secondary school programmes, 68% of those who have not completed a first Bologna degree, 63% of those who have completed a BA degree and 67% of those who have completed a MA or more. In oth- er words, as education or training is completed, the mismatch between the education required and the education obtained decreases. It is also worth noting that almost a third of respondents (28%) do not consider that the knowledge and skills they have acquired at school help them in their job. Among them, there is a significant proportion (46%) of those who are working outside their vocational qualifications. By com- parison, among those who work within their vocational qualifications, only 14% consider that the knowledge and skills they acquired during their education do not help them in their work. 3.4  YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth entrepreneurship and the term “young entrepreneur” began to take on a special meaning in Slovenia at the beginning of the new mil- lennium. This was a consequence of the general emphasis placed on the value of private property and the general entrepreneurial initiative in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Euro- pean Union’s awareness of the declining global competitiveness of Euro- pean economies, and the global trend of attaching great importance to entrepreneurship. In fact, the European Commission noted in 2003 that technological change, increased globalisation, the changing structure of the workforce, the proliferation of consumer preferences, and the in- creasing deregulation and privatisation of economies were also forcing