IMPACT EVALUATION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SUBSIDIES FOR THE UNEMPLOYED IN LITHUANIA

This report on Lithuania is the tenth country study published in a series of reports looking into how policies connect people with jobs. This report is produced in the framework of a project of the OECD with the European Commission which aims to raise the quality of the data collected and their use...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: OECD
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: PARIS : OECD, 2022.
Subjects:
Economic development projects > Evaluation.
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Projets de développement économique > Évaluation.
Economic development projects > Evaluation
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Executive summary
  • 1 Assessment and recommendations
  • 1.1. Lithuania should continue to strengthen its system of active labour market policies
  • 1.1.1. Lithuania has seen strong employment growth over the past decade but challenges remain
  • 1.1.2. A recent reform helped improve the institutional set-up and reach of active labour market policy provision
  • 1.1.3. Lithuania spends relatively little in ALMPs, which do not adequately respond to needs
  • 1.2. Evidence-informed policy making is crucial to improve the system of ALMPs
  • 1.2.1. Impact evaluations of ALMPs can help design more effective ALMPs and allocate funding more sustainably
  • 1.2.2. Robust evaluation techniques are required to establish whether ALMPs have the intended impact on participants
  • 1.2.3. Evaluations should look at outcomes beyond the probability of employment to account for aspects of job quality
  • 1.2.4. Lithuania's rich linked administrative data represent an invaluable resource for evaluating the impact of ALMPs
  • 1.3. Vocational training and employment subsidies help to connect people with jobs, but could be fine-tuned further
  • 1.3.1. Vocational training and employment subsidies are two of the main ALMPs in Lithuania, representing half of the total ALMP budget
  • 1.3.2. Younger jobseekers, men and high-skilled jobseekers are more likely to enter the vocational training or employment subsidy programmes
  • 1.3.3. Vocational training helps individuals become employed, especially in the short term, without adversely affecting occupational mobility or wages
  • 1.3.4. The voucher system for vocational training may partly explain the positive effects
  • 1.3.5. Men, older (especially older women), low-skilled and long-term jobseekers gain larger benefits from participating in vocational training
  • 1.3.6. Employment effects of vocational training are stronger when there is a tripartite agreement between jobseekers, the LES and employers
  • 1.3.7. The positive results of training suggest that Lithuania should invest more in this measure and find solutions to increase access to it
  • 1.3.8. Subsidies have significant positive effects on labour market outcomes
  • 1.3.9. Employment subsidies have positive effects across the different groups of beneficiaries, although the channels and magnitudes of these effects vary
  • 1.3.10. Subsidised jobs are not replacing unsubsidised jobs
  • 1.3.11. ALMP targeting could be improved
  • 2 Recent trends in the Lithuanian labour market and active labour market policies
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Labour market situation and trends in Lithuania
  • 2.2.1. Strong employment growth characterised the Lithuanian labour market over the past decade

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