| Abstract [eng] |
The job for young people is not only source of income, but also the way of successful self realization and integration into society. Moreover, the high level of youth employment is the ground of stable and economically strong society. Unfortunately youth unemployment is a serious problem not only in Lithuania, but in more other EU countries also. Youth unemployment rate is twice biger than general unemployment rate. Because of the actuality of youth employment problem, the main purpose of this master thesis is to study the perspectives of the Lithuanian youth employment in single EU labour market and to refer the ways to solve the problem. The methods of youth employment policy documents, employment statistics analysis, and qualitative expert and youth interviews were used for the research. Were made 10 structured interviews with 5 experts and 5 youth respondents. First of all the theoretical presumptions about youth employment are reviewed in this work. The problematic use of youth conception, the development of youth situation in labour market and reasons of youth unemployment are discussed. The EU and the Lithuanian employment policy and programs with its specific attention to youth employment problems in the general employment policy were discussed. The third part of this work presented the results of qualitative expert and youth research, which name the main youth employment problems in Lithuania and propose measures to solve them. The study also studies the effects of EU policy for the youth employment. The work also predicts the outcomes of youth labour emigration. The study refers possible ways to solve the future difficulties. It also discusses future trends of youth employment in overall EU labour market. Finally there are formulations of the main findings of this work and the use of this work in the formulation of the policy process. |
