CHARACTERISTICS OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT IN ROMANIA AND STRATEGIES TO INCREASE EMPLOYMENT
CHARACTERISTICS OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT IN ROMANIA AND STRATEGIES TO INCREASE EMPLOYMENT

Author(s): Elisaveta Drăghici
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Public Administration, Sociology, Economic history, Labor relations, Political economy, Demography and human biology, Economic development
Published by: CEEOLPRESS
Keywords: Unemployment; employment; Romania; post-communist transition; state intervention; labor force migration; market economy;
Summary/Abstract: The present study analyzes unemployment and employment in Romania from 1990 to 2023 (from the fall of the communist regime to the present), providing an overview of these two social phenomena. The approach includes an analysis of statistical data and a description of state intervention (legislative regulation and strategic measures) to reduce unemployment and stimulate employment. This perspective allows us to understand how Romanian society has reacted to the hardships caused by job loss. Social consequences such as labor force migration and the shift in the economic paradigm of the population (from employee to entrepreneur) in response to rising unemployment in Romania are also examined. The contribution of the paper consists of analyzing unemployment and employment issues over a comprehensive period (more than 30 years), offering the possibility to extrapolate a new perspective on the dynamics of Romanian society based on statistical data. It also describes the administrative processes followed by the Romanian state (as a former socialist state) in the sphere of employment and social protection policy for the unemployed—elements that illustrate administrative governance in the social sphere. The results of the study are useful for those interested in exploring how states that experienced centralized regimes of government (under communist rule) responded to the transition to a market economy, and for those concerned with understanding the dynamics of employment, unemployment, and the reconfiguration of society from the employment perspective.

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