THE JOBLESS AND THE INSECURE Mirna Jusić FIVE POINTS ON YOUTH AND LABOUR MARKETS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE 2019 1 Joblessness is high across the region, especially in SEE countries that have not joined the EU. A significant share of young people are neither in employment or in education in Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. 4 Given their uncertain prospects of having secure employ­ment, it does not come as a surprise that most young people from the SEE countries that have not joined the EU would prefer to work in the public sector. 2 In the SEE countries that have not joined the EU and ­Slovenia, non-standard employment is very common, pointing to the precarity of young people‘s work. 3 Skills mismatches are a reality for young people in the ­region: survey results show that as many as 42%, on average, work in jobs that they have not been educated for. 5 Across the region, connections are seen as an important factor in finding employment as a young person. Party mem­bership is being reported as an important asset for later employment, particularly in the WB-6 countries as well as in Croatia.