Tytuł pozycji:
Aktywna polityka rynku pracy na Litwie w latach 2009–2020: perspektywa inwestycji społecznych
An active labour market policy is an integral part of social policy, ensuring
support for the unemployed to search for a job through developing their skills. Thus,
the active labour market policy is part of the social investment, focusing on investment
in people’s knowledge. The heart of social investment is the design of policy-enhancing
people to work, use their skills, create families and grow up children. The active labour
market policy was analysed, focusing on the measures and their development in Lith uania. At the same time, the analysis from the social investment perspective was miss ing. Thus, this research aims to analyse Lithuania’s active labour market policy from
the social investment perspective between 2009 and 2020. The choice of the period was
determined by the time of the world financial crisis in 2009 and the Covid-19 pandem ic crisis in 2020. The analysis of legal documents and Eurostat data for 2009-2018 was
used to attain the formulated aim. Additionally, the meta-analysis of the Ministry of
Social security and Labour’s Social Reports in 2009-2017 was used to analyse active
labour market policy development. The research is based on methodology, which sug gests classifying the active labour market measures into the strong and weak invest ments in human capital. A strong investment provides basic education or training, and
a weak one creates new jobs, job subsidies, counselling, services for getting the job, job
searching programmes, benefits, and taxes allowances. The analysis of the Lithuanian
active labour market policy measures revealed that both strong and weak investments
in human capital were balanced only during the crises. However, during the inter-cri sis period, Lithuania’s active labour market policy measures were more focused on the
weaker investment in human capital measures or the “job first” strategy. The strong
investment in human capital was the lowest in Lithuania among other Baltic countries
during the analysed period.