Supply and demand of high skills in the labour market of Lithuania : challenges for human resource development and talent management

The paper discloses the main factors of supply and demand of high skills in the labour market of Lithuania, exploring their implications to the human resource development and talent management approaches and practices in the enterprises. It includes analysis of the historical pathway of development of supply and demand of high skills in the labour market of Lithuania with consideration of socio-economic, institutional, political and cultural factors, as well as critical overview of the main features of the demand and supply of high skills in the labour market and the main factors that influence existing mismatches between the supply and demand of high skills in the labour market of Lithuania. The article contributes to the wider and deeper understanding of the specificties of the supply and demand of high skilled human resources in the labour market of transitional economies. It also explains the issues which are important for the development and implementation of the measures of educational and labour market policies, as well as for the policy learning in the fields of labour market, higher education, continuing training and skills developmentEdukologijos tyrimų institutasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta