UNEMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND WAYS TO OVERCOME IT
Urgency of the research.The problem of employment of young people through the years remains topical. Without seeing the job prospects in their own country, young people are more likely to receive education abroad, and stay there to work. As a result - the intellectual potential of our state is reduced, and, therefore, reduced are the prospects for economic development of Ukraine. Target setting. Unemployment of youth threatens not only the loss of qualifications, but also pro-motes the growth of crime, indirectly promotes the spread of socially dangerous diseases. That’s why the employment of youth is considered as one of the most acute socio-economic problems of our state. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Analysis of the development of labor market and employment among youth in Ukraine was considered in the works of V. Bliznyuk, D. Bogin, V. Budkina, T. Koropchuk, T. Miroshnichenko, L. Shevchenko, T. Zayets, M. Koretsky, N. Didenko, T. Chatchchenko, T. Ivanova, D. Boginya, V. Savitskaya, L. Tkachenko and others, but measures for preventing and solving the mentioned problem are not proposed. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The aim of the research is the identification of the reasons and problems of unemployment among Ukrainian youth and suggestion ways to solve this problem. The research objective. The purpose of the article is to analyze the main problems of youth un-employment in Ukraine, as well as identify areas and elaborate proposals for raising the level of em-ployment among young people. The statement of basic materials.The main reasons of employment among youth are lack of quality jobs with decent conditions and wages, especially for young people; decline in production and slowdown of economic restructuring; insufficient level of interaction between educational institutions and employers. Conclusions. Analyzing these reasons it is possible to come to conclusions that for the solution of the problem of unemployment among youth is necessary: to strengthen the activity of state authorities in the directions of employment of youth; to support self-employment of youth; to stimulate the creation of jobs for young people in a real, not hidden economy; to ensure the coherence of the system of higher education with the needs of labor market.