<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Under the impact of unfavourable demographic developments, some existing imbalances on the Romanian labor market have worsened. Thus, in 2019 the labor force shortage was estimated to 300000 persons, while in the last ten years the number of vacancies has exceeded 60,000 places, more than double the level at the beginning of the period (2010). This phenomenon may have negative social and economic effects. In this context, the present paper aims at analysing the labor shortages in Romania, at identifying its main determinants and the most important social and economic consequences and recommends a series of measures to mitigate the negative effects of this phenomenon.</p></abstract>

Under the impact of unfavourable demographic developments, some existing imbalances on the Romanian labor market have worsened. Thus, in 2019 the labor force shortage was estimated to 300000 persons, while in the last ten years the number of vacancies has exceeded 60,000 places, more than double the level at the beginning of the period (2010). This phenomenon may have negative social and economic effects. In this context, the present paper aims at analysing the labor shortages in Romania, at identifying its main determinants and the most important social and economic consequences and recommends a series of measures to mitigate the negative effects of this phenomenon.

Labor force shortage analysis in Romania - size, impact and measures

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Statistics

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Under the impact of unfavourable demographic developments, some existing imbalances on the Romanian labor market have worsened. Thus, in 2019 the labor force...

Labor force shortage analysis in Romania - size, impact and measures

Published Online: May 31, 2021

Page range: 240 - 250

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icas-2021-0021

Keywords
labor force shortage, driver, vacancy, emigration

© 2021 Valentina Vasile et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Labor force shortage analysis in Romania - size, impact and measures

Published Online: May 31, 2021

Page range: 240 - 250

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icas-2021-0021

Keywordslabor force shortage, driver, vacancy, emigration

© 2021 Valentina Vasile et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
labor force shortage, driver, vacancy, emigration