trends, seasonal and long-term migration of the population both in the country and abroad, imbalanced economic development of … sectors of the economy. This context is strongly influencing the education sector with an aging workforce and shrinking …

This report contributes to the scarce literature on labor market outcomes of different levels of education and returns … to education in Belarus. Previous calculations of returns to education in Belarus were carried out for 1996-2001 (Pastore … and Verashchagina 2006) and for 1995-2011 (Chubrik 2013). Unlike previous studies that emphasized higher education, this …

. The slow growth has exacerbated the serious challenges facing the country's development, for example, high unemployment … of new entrants, most of them are the youth and current job seekers in the labor market. Although skills development is a … continuing process and most of it takes place on the job, for young people, foundation skills are developed in education and …

disconnected from formal skills development systems; (ii) actual skills, rather than education levels, diplomas, or years of … public policies on post-secondary education, vocational education and training (VET) system labor market information and … of Statistics in Albania [INSTAT], United Nations Development Programme [UNDP], and the National Employment Services [NES …

development to improve the country's socioeconomic prospects, the Government of Moldova approved the educational development … strategies for 2013-2020. The main objectives are to improve the quality of education and training system and better match its …

employment, education, or training (NEET). In Georgia, the phenomenon is mostly urban, whereas in Armenia it's both rural and … to education, Georgia and Armenia stand out as cases where higher educational attainment does not necessarily prevent … young people from becoming NEETs, and the NEET rate among higher education graduates is even bigger (particularly among …

and impact of skill training programs. DDT links skills development explicitly with the job market, typically through … includes World Bank teams and other development and policy practitioners interested in results-based contracting in the context …