Professional Traineeship Programme as a Tool Facilitating Participation of Unemployed Youth in the Labour Market: Case Study of the Republic of Serbia

Lebedinski, Lara and Pavlović, Dejana (2023) Professional Traineeship Programme as a Tool Facilitating Participation of Unemployed Youth in the Labour Market: Case Study of the Republic of Serbia. Ekonomika preduzeća, LXXI (3-4). pp. 202-212. ISSN 0353-443X

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Abstract

Active labour market policies (ALMPs) aim to increase employment mainly targeting vulnerable groups as beneficiaries ‒ long-term unemployed, youth, women, people with disabilities, Roma, etc. The prevalence of ALMPs and their intensity vary from country to country as determined by available financial resources, targeted beneficiaries’ characteristics as well as the labour market characteristics. The objective of this paper is to examine the 12-month Professional Traineeship Programme (PTP) implemented by the National Employment Service (NES) of the Republic of Serbia. The programme was conducted from 2017 to 2018 assigning 9,561 participants to workplace training based on their educational background with a view to easing the transition from education to work. Our analysis illustrates the characteristics and labour market outcomes of the programme’s participants. Every third participant got employed in the company after completing the programme, and after one year every second participant was employed (in the same company or elsewhere). We find that those who participated in the programme in the public sector were somewhat less likely to gain employment a year after its completion. Moreover, women were more likely to be employed one year after finishing the traineeship as well as those who were better educated and those who lived in more economically developed regions. Gender, education level and one’s regional background are therefore found to be important correlates of success in securing employment when young people enter the labour market following education.

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