YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Employment and entrepreneurship  161 6. The gap between skills and workplace requirements is narrower compared to 2013 and 2018. This gap is even less distinct when those who have not been involved in an education or training pro- cess are excluded from the analysis. 7. There is a trend towards an increasing preference for private sec- tor employment and decreasing attractiveness of public sector employment, but the interest in working for someone else (at the expense of self-employment) is likely to be increasing due to growing insecurity. 8. What matters most to young people in Slovenia is that their work is interesting, that they are autonomous at work, that their work has a clear goal, and that their job is secure. This is especially true for young women. 9. In 2020, the proportion of young people who consider their work underpaid, the work they do boring, and their work climate poor has increased compared to 2010. The level of agreement with the statement that young people’s rights are violated at work has also increased compared to 2010. 10. Those young people who are employed report an average work- load of 36.4 hours per week, which is close to that of a full-time job (40 hours per week). It is particularly interesting to note that relatively high hourly workloads are reported by the unemployed (33.3 hours per week) and those who are still actively engaged in education. This points to the problem of ‘undeclared work’ and to the fact that ‘student work’ is still ‘abused’ (the weekly workload shows that the hourly workload for this group exceeds that of part-time work). 11. Young people recognise the incentives for self-employment in the education system, but the desire for this formof employment is still not one of their preferred forms of work, as it is perceived as risky. 12. Young people’s employment choices favour job security and good earnings over social benefits and job sustainability.