UNEMPLOYMENT COSTS
UNEMPLOYMENT COSTS
Author(s): Gheorghe Pîrvu, Adriana TotîlcaSubject(s): Economy
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: direct costs; indirect costs; the social cost; unemployment; gross national product; national income
Summary/Abstract: Unemployment is an imbalance of the labor market at national level - an excess of supply over demand levels and work with different evolutionary directions of countries and periods, which currently has a permanent character, but does not rule out the existence of employment status full labor. Unemployment costs, directly or indirectly, reveals that this phenomenon is a waste of human and financial resources generated by the use of an incomplete production funds, with implications for social costs. Direct costs are highlighted in the form of financial payments to the fund for social protection of unemployed, which is mainly used to pay unemployment benefits, support allowance, qualification and retraining of unemployed. Indirect costs are generated by reducing overall production and income that could benefit the entire population.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova - Seria Ştiinţe Economice
- Issue Year: XXXIX/2011
- Issue No: _
- Page Range: 1-8
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English