1. Youth and the Labour Market in Lithuania
By Vaiva Sapetkaitė
Warsaw/

2. Agenda Main facts about the contemporary situation in Lithuania
Tendencies
Role of education

3. Main facts In Lithuania live more than 600 000 young people (14-29)
Due to big emigration, in a recent decade we lost about 20% of our young generation. This age group makes around a half of all emigrants from Lithuania
Additional pressure for education system and labour market is created by a decreasing birth rate

4. Brain Drain A big problem without any real solution
1 in 14 Lithuanian students are studying abroad (about )
The worst predictions: the number of graduates will fall by 40% by 2023 compared to 2009 if nothing is done
The best young specialists are tempted by better salaries and bigger career opportunities abroad

5. Unemployment is decreasing
When workforce supply is smaller, it is easier for young people to find a job
In the beginning of 2016 there were registered about young (16-29) unemployed people
Data of Lithuanian Labour Exchange shows that unemployment of young people is decreasing

6. More pressing questions are salaries and working conditions.

7. Tendencies I
Labour market is very dynamic. Young people are not very loyal to their work places
Many of them change their jobs (or even fields) quite often or have more than one job
A lot of young people are very adaptable to new requirements of the market and changes

8. Tendencies II
Entrepreneurship is growing. In recent years much more of young people established different kind of startups (especially, related with IT) and created new work places
In Lithuania it is easy to establish new business, but work force is taxed quite heavily. A part of youth works in the shadow

9. Tendencies III Many students have a job while studying
After finishing university or college many graduates do not work in a field of their study

10. Thank you for your attention! Questions?