Young Jobless Albanians Abandon Hope of Work

An online survey carried between June and April 2014, including 7,555 respondents from across Southeast Europe, show Albania has the lowest number of unemployed young people actually seeking a job.

Only 36 per cent of the respondents in Albania said they were actively seeking employment, followed by Macedonia and Montenegro, where the figures were 38 and 39 per cent.

The data show that youth unemployment in the region is highest in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 59 and 42 per cent of the respondents respectively identified as unemployed.

The EUNACAL findings also underline that Albania has the largest number of young people working without a proper work contract, which is due to the large scale of informality in its economy.

However, young Albanians spent only 7.3 months to secure in employment, which according to the survey is the shortest period in the region.

Asked how comfortable they would feel from a scale of one to ten with a gay and lesbian boss, with one being uncomfortable and ten very uncomfortable, respondents to the survey in Albania gave an average score of 5.8.

The average score in the survey for a supervisor over the age of 75, or a person with disability, was 5.7 and 7.5.

Respondents felt more comfortable working with a supervisor who is under 30, a woman, or someone coming from diffrent ethnic minority or religion.