Socio – Economic Consequences of Unemployment in Kosovo 2008-2012

Abstract

Unemployment in Kosovo brought a lot of consequences; however the main consequences are emphasized in socio – economic ground. We will elaborate the economic and social consequences in this work. The greatest consequences that unemployment brought in social aspect during the period 2008-2012 are mainly emphasized on the increase of criminality on the young population, significant migration which is being seen as the only and inevitable opportunity to a good economic solution. The greatest consequences of unemployment from the economic ground are emphasized on direct investments of Kosovo Government, increase of the expenses for social cases, decrease of investments on education and agriculture, decrease of GDP per capita, increase of budgetary deficit and trade deficit also it has influence on the decrease of economic investments from remittances.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n2p223