ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET POLICY AIMED AT YOUTH Ivana Rogina Pavičić,

1. ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET POLICY AIMED AT YOUTH Ivana Rogina Pavičić, Active Labour Market Policy Division, Croatian Employment Service Zagreb, 16 October, 2013

2. Youth in the Croatian Labour Market 2012 Employed Unemployed - total 186,156 - total 324,324 - youth (15 – 24) 41,468 - youth (15 – 24) 62,063 - youth (25 – 29) 36,072 -youth (25 – 29) 45,445 - share of youth 44.1% - share of youth 33.1% Youth employment rate Youth unemployment rate - total: 23.6% -total: 19.1% - men: 26% - men: 22% - women: 18.8% - women: 16.5% Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET), ILO - total: 14.9% - men: 16.4% - women: 13.2% Izvor: Hrvatski zavod za zapošljavanje, www.hzz.hr

3. Croatian Labour Market

4. Youth Guarantee • EU Initiative; implementation in 2014 *in the Republic of Croatia implementation of certain measures started in July 2013) • Young persons up to 29 yearsold (expanded target group) will receive employment or education offer shortly after their entrance in the CES unemployment evidence • Subsidies, occupational training without commencing employment, self-employment, public works, education • Employment offer should be expanded to social enterprises; various forms of professional practice • Special support for young adults leaving the education system with incomplete secondary education

5. Oriented at target groups For the unemployed • „Young and creative“ – ALMP for young persons • „Disability is an Advantage” – measures for disadvantaged groups • „Persons Engaged in the Labour Market“ – measures for persons with disabilities • „Experience is important“ – measures for older persons • “We are new in employment and education“ – measures for long term unemployed • Measures for the unemployed Roma people For employers • „It is important to preserve jobs“ – measures for employers with difficulties Active Labour Market Policy MeasuresPackages

6. „Young and Creative” 7 measures for young people – up to July 2013 „Halfway to first employment” – employment subsidies for young people without work experience „50/50 payment plan” – employment subsidies for young long term unemployed people „Your initiative – your workplace” – self-employment subsidies „Studying while working” – subsidy for training of newly employed person „To achieve knowledge is worthwhile” – training and education of the unemployed „Work and internship” – vocational training without commencing employment „Help yourself and others” – employment through public works

7. „Young and Creative” –expandedwith YG Measures Introduced in July 2013 Additional opportunities for youth in public works programs – school assisstents, EU projects managers, green jobs, care Employment subsidy for former occupational training participants Travel expenses for occupational training participants Entreprenurial training Literacy courses for young primary education droputs Training for EU funds managment Workplace training Employment in social entreprises In total – ALMP packagetargeted at youthconsistsof23 measures

8. Type of measures • Employment subsidies (financing of 50% wage cost) • Training subsidies (traing of the newly employedor employed lacking certain skills and knowledge) • Occupationaltraining without commencing employment, • Self-employmentsubsidies, • Public works programmes, • Education (in training institions)

9. Project: Youth in the Labour Market • Instrument for Pre-AccessionAssistance (IPA) Programme 2007 - 2009 • Component IV: Human Resources Development • Duration: 18 months (January 2010 –July2011) • Value: € 1.100.000 • Overall objective: To reduce youth unemployment at the regional level. • Purpose:To promote and foster employment of youth at the regional level (following partnership approach) through the development and implementation of active labour market policy measures. • Target groups:unemployed youth (age group 15-24), local labour market stakeholders, CES counsellors.

10. Project: Youth in the Labour Market- results • Local stakeholders developed and improved their knowledgeand skills on youth employment issues and proposedappropriate actions to tackle problems of youth in the labour market. • Capacities of the CES to deliver better tailored and more targetedservices to unemployed youth increased.

11. Project: Youth in the Labour Market - results • Analytical report about the attitudes towards youth unemployment of young unemployed people and employers in 8 selected Croatian counties: • youth has less security in the LM – much more represented in temporary, seasonal and short-term /fixed-term contracts • 65% of employers feel that educational outcomes are not attuned to their needs – not satisfied with level of occupation-related practical skills of youth; however, only half provide opportunity to acquire such skills through systems of apprenticeship, internship or work practice => real barrier to entry to LM and retention of jobs

12. Projects in 2013 • IPA Direct Award – Occupational training without comencing employment • Miniature ESF – second half of 2013 – Subsidized employment of young people without work experience (3.529.412 euros) and Occupational training without commencing employment (2.352.941 euros)

13. Other services for youth • Youth Center • providing information, job mediation and counselling, advisors specially trained to work with youth • first one established in 2013 in Zagreb, other 3 to be established by the end of 2013 (Rijeka Osijek and Split) • next year another 18 (in total 22 to be functional next year, one in each CES Regional office) • CISOK (Career information and guidance centre) • Providing information about LM situation, trends, career counselling services etc. in order to foster lifelong learning • available to wider public (not only CES clients), located outside CES premises • 8 centres established in 2013,

14. Share of Youth in the Active Labour Market Policy Measures 2008 - 2012

15. Challenges • Better harmonization of the educational system and labour market • Encourage entrepreneurship through regular education • Encourage high school education continuity, lifelong learning and universal skills • Strenghten the role of the local community in youth employment through local partnerships for employment • Actively participate in the labour market in order to promote geographical and professional workforce mobility, new employment and self-employment • Continue to use EU funds in order to develop programs for youth

16. CROATIAN EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Radnička cesta 1 10000 Zagreb +385-1-6126-000 +385-1-6126-038 ivana.rogina@hzz.hr***www.hzz.hr THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!