THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMPLOYING YOUNG PEOPLE

Abstract

The governance system in Kosovo is separate from the central level of governance at the local level. But these two are interconnected. Therefore, considering the influence of local government in many different spheres, the purpose of this paper is to describe the role of local government in promoting entrepreneurship and the influence of entrepreneurship on youth employment. Initially this paper analyzes the support that local government provides to enterprises through various forms such as infrastructure, administrative procedures, various subsidies, and then employment of young people in these enterprises. The study included 500 enterprises of the Republic of Kosovo, where from the findings of this study we conclude that the local government has an average impact on the promotion of enterprises as it does not offer as much opportunity for enterprises due to limited competences in economic development. In addition, youth employment is low. The primary data collection is through the forms provided by Google, while data analysis is done with the SPSS program where the measurement of results is done with techniques like correlation Various statistical variables were identified from the variance analysis.