This report was prepared by Anne Lauringson and Matija Vodopivec in the OECD’s Directorate for Employment Labour and Social Affairs under the supervision of Theodora Xenogiani (team leader). Statistical assistance was provided by Dana Blumin and editorial assistance by Lucy Hulett.
The co‑operation with Audronė Butkienė, Gytis Darulis, Indrė Laučienė, Inga Liubertė, Rita Skrebiškienė, Eglė Talačkaitė, Darius Žalalis, Petrica Badea, Sara Flisi and Giulia Santangelo has been instrumental for the project and the preparation of this report.
The report has also greatly benefited from the information and assessments received from stakeholders in Lithuania who the OECD team and the European Commission met with during virtual fact-finding missions in June 2021. These included representatives from the Ministry of Social Security and Labour, the Lithuanian Employment Service (including representatives from the regional/local offices), the Lithuanian Business Confederation, the Lithuanian Construction Association, the Association “Investor’s forum”, the trade union “Solidarumas”, the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation, the Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, the consultancy European Social, Legal, and Economic Projects (ESTEP), Vilnius Jeruzalės training centre and Žirmūnai vocational centre.
Comments on earlier versions of this report – through virtual meetings and in writing – greatly benefited the report. Comments were provided by the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Employment Service, the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission’s Joint Research Centre / Centre for Research on Impact Evaluation, as well as Mark Pearson, Mark Keese and Judd Ormsby at the OECD.
The report was produced as part of the project “Pilot studies on impact evaluation of labour market and social policies through the use of linked administrative and survey data” which is co-funded by the European Union (European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) (VS‑2020‑0368).