The social and employment situation in Estonia and priorities of the Estonian Presidency

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.In Estonia, during the recovery from recession, the employment rate increased almost 10 percentage points (p.p.) to the level of almost 77% and the unemployment rate decreased by 10 p.p. to the level on 7%. Active labour market policies played an important role here as Estonia succeeded in adjusting active labour market services to meet the needs of the labour market. As a result, Estonia’s employment rate is one of the highest in the EU and their unemployment rate one of the lowest.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, May 2017: The social and employment situation in Estonia and priorities of the Estonian Presidency http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/602036/IPOL_STU(2017)602036_EN.pdf

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