MODERN TENDENCIES OF YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN THE EU AND UKRAINE

The article is devoted to actual issues of youth employment considering the current stage of Ukrainian and EU labor market. The purpose of research is assessment of basic tendencies of youth employment in Ukraine and European Union; and grounding of practical recommendations to solving youth employment problems in modern conditions. In consequence of research, the directions for improving the situation of youth employment based on the experience of leading EU countries were proposed. So, among them: effective interaction between the labor market and the education market in the context of partnership between the government, educational institutions and business representatives (employers); stimulation of entrepreneurial activity of young people, through the use of preferential taxation mechanisms, information providing and consulting for documentation and features of their own business; development of innovative forms of employment and self-employment; government subsidies for those companies that take young workers in their first job; improvement of legal framework regulating of the labor market, providing of monitoring of youth labor market indicators.