The Baltic miracle? The economic crisis and its consequences for young people in the labor market of the Baltic states, 2007–2017

Piotr Michoń

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2019, vol. 50, issue 1, 7-20

Abstract: The financial crisis (2008–2009) resulted in significant deterioration of the youth labor market in the Baltic states. In 2017, however, the Baltic states were among the countries with the highest employment-to-population ratio in Europe (the ‘Baltic Miracle’). This article shows that the observed progress is mostly due to the demographic changes in the three countries. Isolating the demographic effect demonstrated that it played crucial role in mitigating the negative effects of the crisis, especially in Latvia and Lithuania. The results of the study show that in 2017 only in Estonia had the youth labor market returned to its precrisis conditions.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2019.1570287

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