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This book represents another volume from a series of reports on the situ-ation in the Slovak labour market, resulting from a research project funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency . The main goals of this report are as follows: (i) to review the recent labour market developments, (ii) to provide short-term and mid-term forecasts of the labour market de-velopments, and (iii) to examine the causes of selected structural problems of the Slovak labour market. We are targeting the key stakeholders in the field of labour market policymaking, the research community, as well as the general public.
The first chapter provides an overview of the recent labour market de-velopments in Slovakia, as well as stylised facts that attempt to place the existing trends in a broader macroeconomic picture and policymaking con-text.
In the second chapter, we present the results of a revised mid-term fore-cast of employment by economic sector based on a combination of macro-economic and microsimulation models. Here we report the expected devel-opments in terms of expansion and replacement demand for labour, point-ing at the segments with the highest expected skills shortage.
The third chapter provides an overview of available evidence on the im-pact of Slovak active labour market policy measures. The main findings of available studies are placed in a broader labour market context and supple-mented with information on the main historical developments of Slovak public employment services.
The fourth chapter provides evidence on the impact of one, recently in-troduced, publicly funded training measure available to registered jobseek-ers under the so-called REPAS programme.
In the fifth chapter, Slovak policies of labour market integration of per-sons with health disabilities are described and examined.
In the sixth chapter, labour market inequalities in Slovakia are analysed, applying the concept of social class. The class structure and its changes are examined on the basis of EGP and ESeC class schemes. Social mobility is analysed through various log-linear models.
The final, seventh chapter, evaluates the accuracy of short-term predic-tions in respect of the unemployment rate produced during the concluding project funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-14-0324: Addressing social challenges related to the design of evidence based labour market policies).