OECD Economics Department Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-1973 (en ligne)
DOI :
10.1787/18151973
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Working papers from the Economics Department of the OECD that cover the full range of the Department’s work including the economic situation, policy analysis and projections; fiscal policy, public expenditure and taxation; and structural issues including ageing, growth and productivity, migration, environment, human capital, housing, trade and investment, labour markets, regulatory reform, competition, health, and other issues.
 

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Auteur(s):
Lilas Demmou1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OCDE, France

Date de publication
10 déc 2012
Bibliographic information
N°:
1007
Pages
38
DOI
10.1787/5k8xb73hhrd3-en

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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.
Mots-clés:
life-long learning, active labour market policies, higher education, Estonia, unemployment, skills mismatch
Classification JEL:
  • I21: Health, Education, and Welfare / Education and Research Institutions / Analysis of Education
  • I22: Health, Education, and Welfare / Education and Research Institutions / Educational Finance
  • I28: Health, Education, and Welfare / Education and Research Institutions / 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, and Vacancies / Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
  • J68: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Public Policy