'From Social Support to Employment' : Considering Target Groups’ Needs in Active Social Policies

In labor market development in the transition years the policy is concentrated on more active operations directed to the support in re-structuring labor force and increasing its mobility. Planning activities in economic processes and effects on employment are low and continue to be in some short-term character in contrast to the need of long-term provisions. The adequacy and timing of the conducted policy have a determining significance for the effective support to the labor markets parameters and economic development. On the national and regional level there is a lack of data in the information systems about the profile features of employed and unemployed persons. That impedes the analyses in employment trends. An investigation of the general profiles of the unemployed persons participating in the National program "From social support to employment" would help the development of new and update of existing social practices, as well as in achieving conformity of the policies in the sphere of employment to real life conditions, social and economic, educational, qualification and cultural characteristics of the population. Not the least, such an investigation would support the development of an effective information PR strategy and campaigns servicing such types of social policies