The paper presents the results of the evaluation of the selected active labour market policy measure “Contribution to the Graduate practice” in Slovakia. The measure is of a voluntary nature and its main aim is to prevent long-term unemployment among young people and to support a competitive ability of young school-leavers and thus their employability and sustainability in the labour market through the acquisition of work experience, professional skills and work habits. In the study, we analyse the selected characteristics of young jobseekers who participated in this measure in 2016 and their counterfactuals who did not participate. In addition to 2016, the observed period includes a subsequent 2 years – the individual impact period of the measure for each participant, i.e. the years 2017 and 2018. We evaluated the effects of the measure by applying the exact matching of treated and non-treated individuals using the outcome variables, namely wages and placement in the labour market in the impact period of the measure. The results indicate that the Graduate practice had a positive impact on the employability and sustainability of its participants, but rather in short-term or maximum long-term. Regarding the wage levels referring to the financial appraisal of the participants of the measure, the results suggest that non-treated individuals were better financially evaluated and so the Graduate practice did not guarantee better salary to its participants. The findings of the study are important in the setting of conditions of the measure for future periods in order to achieve its better functioning and efficiency in the way of proper targeting, more efficient use of funds, and for a system of their redistribution.

本文介绍了对斯洛伐克选定的积极劳动力市场政策措施“对研究生实践的贡献”的评估结果。该措施具有自愿性质，其主要目的是防止青年人长期失业，并通过获得工作经验、专业知识，支持年轻毕业生的竞争能力，从而支持他们在劳动力市场上的就业能力和可持续性。技能和工作习惯。在研究中，我们分析了 2016 年参与该措施的年轻求职者的选定特征以及未参与的反事实。除 2016 年外，观察期还包括随后的 2 年——该措施对每个参与者的个人影响期，即 2017 年和 2018 年。我们通过使用结果变量（即措施影响期间的工资和劳动力市场的安置）应用接受治疗和未接受治疗的个体的精确匹配来评估该措施的效果。结果表明，研究生实践对其参与者的就业能力和可持续性产生了积极影响，但在短期或最大长期内。关于参考措施参与者财务评估的工资水平，结果表明未接受治疗的个人在财务上得到了更好的评估，因此研究生实践并不能保证其参与者获得更好的薪水。研究结果对于设定未来时期措施的条件很重要，以便以适当的目标方式实现更好的运作和效率，