YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Employment and entrepreneurship  153 that young entrepreneurs face in the first steps of their self-employment journey. This is also what our interviewee points out in his statement: “Entrepreneurship among young people is extremely popular until it is im- plemented, but then there is the problem of bureaucracy and the rigidity of the system. The system should allow students to start their own business without losing other benefits. Today our system literally encourages laziness and suppresses entrepreneurship among young people.” (Luka, 21 years old, student, athlete, and ring-wing politician) As a result, young people’s opinion on the favoured form of employment – i.e. working for someone else or in self-employment/owning their own business – is divided in favour of “traditional” employment with anoth- er employer, as job security in particular is on a completely different lev- el in these forms of employment. Thus, in 2010, despite the then raging economic and financial crisis, a good third (34.6%) of young people would have preferred to work for someone else, with a significant num- ber also undecided (22%), while in 2020, a good half (53.7%) would have chosen to work for someone else (see Figure 3.23). Figure 3.23: Imagine you are looking for a job and you could choose between different types of jobs. Which of the following would you choose? Undecided. 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 2020 2010 14.2 22.0 Self-employment/ employment within my own business 32.1 43.0 Working for someone else. 53.7 34.6 0% Sources: Mladina 2010, Mladina 2020.