although financial disincentives care responsibilities and scarce job opportunities were less widespread overall they represented important barriers for some groups a striking finding is that large shares of those with no or weak labourmarket attachment face multiple simultaneous employment barriers faced three or more significant barriers highlighting the need for broad and coordinated policy approaches that focus on all relevant barriers in a holistic way section provides an overview of estonia s policy stance on activation and employmentsupport policies drawing on a range of available data and policy indicators section seeks to illustrate how bottomup information on patterns of individual employment barriers can inform a discussion of policy priorities effectiveness and gaps a concluding section summarises key policy implications