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Matching Skills and Jobs in Estonia

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  • Lilas Demmou

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The labour market in Estonia is volatile, increasing the risk that groups with some obstacles to enter the labour market (youth, non-Estonian speakers and workers with no upper secondary graduation certificate) may become long-term unemployed, due to the aggravating skills mismatch in the wake of structural change. Avoiding a permanent exit from the labour force makes a multi-pronged strategy necessary, including strengthening activation policies, a better school-to-job transition, improving the cooperation with employers to improve vocational training programmes, stepping up targeting life-long learning support, and improving the access of tertiary studies for students from weak social backgrounds. Faire coïncider compétences et emplois en Estonie Le marché du travail en Estonie est volatile ce qui, en raison d’une aggravation des problèmes d’inadéquation des compétences, augmente le risque de chômage de long terme pour certains groupes subissant davantage de barrières à l’entrée sur le marché du travail (les jeunes, la population ne parlant pas estonien et les travailleurs sans diplômes du secondaire). Afin de réduire le risque de sortie définitive du marché du travail une stratégie sur plusieurs fronts est nécessaire, incluant le renforcement des politiques actives du marché du travail, l’amélioration de la transition entre l’école et le marché du travail, l’amélioration des programmes d’enseignement professionnel par le biais d’un renforcement de la coopération avec les employeurs, un meilleur ciblage des aides destinées à l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie, et l’amélioration d’un accès aux études supérieures pour les étudiants socialement défavorisés.

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  • Lilas Demmou, 2012. "Matching Skills and Jobs in Estonia," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1007, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1007-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k8xb73hhrd3-en
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    Keywords

    active labour market policies; chômage; enseignement professionnel; enseignement supérieur; Estonia; Estonie; formation continue; higher education; inéquation des qualifications; life-long learning; skills mismatch; unemployment;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy

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