OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies
Subtitle: Estonia 2010
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD reviews of labour market and social policies; OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9789264082120
Subjects: Employment (Economic theory); Social Issues/Migration/Health
Description: OECD's comprehensive 2010 review of labour market and social policies in Estonia. It finds that since Estonia regained its independence in 1991, its labour and social policies have been marked by a strong commitment to fiscal prudence, flexible markets, and work incentives. Labour market performance steadily improved during the mid-1990s and beyond, until the advent of the global economic crisis in 2008. Estonia was not well prepared for the slowdown and its economy has been hit especially hard. The downturn has required painful policy adjustments. Today, Estonia’s public social spending remains among the lowest in the OECD; its social programmes support persons in need, but the benefits they receive are usually modest and some of the jobless receive no benefits. However, the country offers one of the world's most generous parental-benefit programmes and has begun to phase in a three-tier pension system.
Table of contents: title: Abbreviations; title: Assessment and Recommendations; title: High Employment but an Unequal Society; title: Flexibility with Limited Security; title: Annex 2.A1; title: Challenges of Social Policy; title: Annex 3.A1.