Problems of administrative regulation of the labour market of Lithuania in the context of regional (rural) employment policy

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of application of measures of administrative regulation of the labour market of Lithuania, which have impact on employment, in the context of regional (rural) employment policy, introduces insights into the changes in the employment and labour market regulation policies in perspective of 2014-2020. The authors provide analytical evaluation of the employment tendency, features of administrative regulation of the labour market and the impact on the regional (rural) employment by means of promoting job creation and labour demand, integrating labour resources into the labour market and ensuring the integrity of the employment policy. The paper presents the analysis of the role of state institutions, which are responsible for the implementation of the labour market policy, in the process of implementation of the goals of employment policy, and problems of harmonization of administrative regulation activity of these institutions. Groups of certain countries, due to unequal social and economic conditions, use different mechanisms of application of active measures of the labour market policy; the implementation of measures of administrative regulation of the labour market of Lithuania has become one of the priorities of the activity of state institutions. The policy of administrative regulation of the labour market is implemented and controlled by several state institutions, i.e. ministries of the Republic of Lithuania, Labour Exchange of Lithuania, etc.; however, neither the mechanism of coordination of the activities of these institutions has been established yet, nor has the system of monitoring of the performance results been created, which complicates the objective evaluation of the level of achievement of goals and objectives. In the process of increasing the labour market flexibility and promoting the participation of labour force it is necessary to ensure the effective supervision o