摘要:The first part of the article describes the general character of employment and finding employment within the complex of social-economic development after the Second World War. Then, it deals with the part of youth employed in the socialist sector, and the difficulties of young people in obtaining employment. The second part of the article analyzes the results of research regarding the intentions of finding non-agricultural jobs among young farmers, and the general characteristics of employment and particularly, unemployment, among rural youth. The general characteristics of employed rural youth are not different from either the characteristics of all employed youth, or from the whole employed population of Croatia. But, the unemployment of rural youth is considerable, and young people who live and work on private farms constitute an important source of potentially employable manpower.