| Abstract [eng] |
The paper deals with unofficial labour-market in Lithuanian labour market: it has been analysed the singularities and factors of unofficial labour-market; policy of the national labour-market, also changes in historical attitude of labour-market. The forms of illegal labour market and different opinions of scientific papers about this aspect were discussed. The purpose of this task is to find out the policy measures and external forces that influence the formation of unofficial labour-market. Lithuanian labour market as many other countries faces of the problematic sector - unofficial labour market. This work deals with the problem of shadow labour existence. The essence of problem could be defined as following - to estimate Lithuanian labour market’s forming reasons; also how to decrease the extent of unofficial labour market in Lithuania. In more details, this work performs analysis of theoretical research of various authors’ interpretations for the underground labour market concept. It determines the efficiency of government policy and experience of some European Uninion countries. An empirical study was performed in order to estimate the reasons of shadow labour market existence and to create consequent decrease of it. Three hypothesis were made in order to verify methodological suppositions that had been made from theoretical analysis. To look over hypothesis an interview of employers and employees was performed. The purpose of the survey is to find out what are the forming reasons of illegal labour market, their attitude towards illegal activities. 6 basic questions from 5th to 10th (both for employers and for employees) make a questionnaire, also additional 4 questions – only for employers (see Appendix 2). 30 employers and 60 employees were interviewed. The research showed that black labour market is still widely spread and that many legislative law’s shortcomings influence extension of illegal actions. The paper draws conclusions regarding the role of unemployment benefits in reducing the size of the informal labour sector. Policy implications are offered and forms of labour relations’ development are investigated. The spread of the work is 58 pages. It consists of 9 images and 2 tables. |
