The economic inactivity affects two thirds of the young people of Moldova, becoming a more pressing phenomena than unemployment. The lack of work experience and the precarious work conditions are an obstacle to the young people who want to become employed. Many of the young people are dependent on remittances from abroad. Simultaneously, the adolescents have very big expectations of the salaries they ask when they want to get a job and the working conditions they want to enjoy, Felicia Bechtoldt, secretary of state of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, stated in the launch of a study of the youth.
The functionary noted that the young people’s capacity to integrate into the labor market depends on the results achieved at school, on the correct and inspired choice of the career and on appropriate informing about the opportunities existing on the labor market. The Republic of Moldova is proud of its labor force with studies, but not all the young people with studies find a job according to their level of training. 29% of the young people have higher qualifications than the job they do have. The adolescents have an enormous potential. They are Moldova’s future. A lot depends on how this human potential is realized for developing the country.
According to Valeriu Prohnitski, study author, the research shows that the young people are satisfied with the quality of the training they received or hope to receive. On the other hand, the teens see a problem in the non-correspondence between the job and the qualification with which they come from school or from the previous job. Even if the young people work, their job is occasional. 15% of the young people said they do occasional work. There is a larger group of young people who didn’t finish a particular stage of education. The young people with incomplete studies have a more unfavorable occupational situation.
From economic viewpoint, the dysfunctional labor market discourages many young people from actively looking for a job, which is also due to the structural discrepancy between the supply of the educational system and the demand on the labor market. From social perspective, the young people live in their own social loops and are not interested in becoming socially involved. The young people’s interest in politics is also at a very low level, especially among the youngest cohorts from rural areas. This can be due to the feeling that the young people are not sufficiently represented in national politics, which is shared by 70% of the respondents.
The data were collected between October 29 and December 12, 2022 on a representative sample of 1,600 respondents. The target group was the young people aged between 15 and 29.
