Estonia
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- No
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- No
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- Yes
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
• Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications • Ministry of Education and Research • Ministry of Justice • Ministry of the Interior • Education and Youth Board • Social Insurance Board • Estonian Unemployment Insurance FundYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Young people are recognized as a target group across several legislative and strategic frameworks, including the Social Welfare Act, the Youth Act, and the Labour Market Measures Act. Additionally, youth-related priorities are integrated into national education, welfare, and employment development strategies. The Action plan of the Reinforced Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan 2022-2027 also includes youth as a target group.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The Welfare Development Plan 2023–2030 outlines national objectives related to the labour market under Sub-goal 2: Labour Market and Working Life. It aims to: • Ensure better matching of labour supply and demand to support high employment levels. • Promote sustainable and adaptable employment policies in response to social and economic changes. • Support structural economic shifts and enhance labour mobility. • Prevent the transition from temporary to permanent incapacity for work and encourage job retention. • Improve working conditions, promote occupational health and safety, and strengthen industrial relations.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
• Labour force participation rate (ages 15–74): Aim to maintain a labour force participation rate of approximately 72% by 2030, compared to 73.9% in 2023. • Average duration of working life: Target a duration of working life of 40.2 years by 2030, down from 40.8 years in 2023. • Employment rate (ages 20–64): Aim to achieve an employment rate of 81.3% by 2030, compared to 82.1% in 2023. • Share of NEETs (ages 15–29): Target a reduction in the share of young people not in employment, education, or training (NEETs) from 9.6% in 2023 to 8.5% by 2035.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Fully involved
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Fully involved
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Consulted
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Consulted
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- No
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- Yes
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth Guarantee steering group (around 40 different institutions)Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
Rural NEET Youth Observatory (myobservatory.eu); European Training Foundation (we are involved in cooperation to support the new countries joining the European Union).