This chapter seeks to explore the main particularities of the institutional settings of skill formation in the post-communist transition of Lithuania and why and how these particularities influence the present processes and institutions by looking more deeply into the typical features of the institutional changes and their implications for socio-economic development. Institutional changes in skill formation in VET, HE and lifelong learning are explored by applying historical institutionalism approach and disclosing reasons, logic and implications of skill formation processes and institutions. There are also considered changes in the labour market and employment, educational access and distribution of learners, migration and social inequalities, using official statistical data. The analysis of social dialogue in relation to skill formation pays particular attention to its institutionalization, since the establishment of formal institutions occurred after the reconstitution of an independent state. The inadequacy of social dialogue is apparent in different iterations of the institutional development of the skill formation system. The development of the national system of qualifications is reviewed by focusing on the drivers and constraints on its implementation. The chapter concludes by outlining the main possibilities for future development of the skill formation system in Lithuania. © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2022. All rights reserved.
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