Youth and the Labour Market in Romania

Youth and the Labour Market in Romania
Author: Vasilica Ciucă
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443861510

In order to improve the quality and efficiency of youth employment, this book examines the cases of the Romanian labour market and of youth employment performance. Recent developments in the labour market participation of young people indicate an accentuation of labour market segmentation and a decrease in job security for young people, with the risk of exclusion and marginalization, fuelled by longer transition processes towards decent employment. This transition may seem clear when one looks at two aspects: education and employment. The challenge the transition towards employment presents is faced by all, regardless of one’s level of education, as employment security is uncertain. The situation young people find themselves in when they finish school and have no job opportunities is a rather delicate one as society offers no “safety nets”. This book, as well as others in the ADAPT Labour Studies Book-Series, explains the challenges young people deal with while playing a vital role within the community they live in. As Kafka has been quoted as saying, “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old”. Therefore, young people, and those young at heart, perform an integral role in society, and they must be well integrated to enable their successful engagement within their communities.

Job Security and Flexibility

Job Security and Flexibility
Author: Emil Dinga
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031285093

This book examines the relationship between job security and job flexibility. Through an innovative conceptual approach, the concept of job flexicurity is presented to highlight the labour market dynamics between job flexibility and employee security. The dynamics of labour market mechanisms are placed within ideas of rigidity, security, flexibility, and plasticity to explore the interplay between different employee considerations. Particular attention is given to the Romanian labour market with an empirical case study that expands upon the ideas discussed. This book aims to analyse how job security and flexibility impact worker well-being and happiness. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics and the job market.

The Failure to Restructure and Improve Efficiency on the Romanian Labor Market

The Failure to Restructure and Improve Efficiency on the Romanian Labor Market
Author: Constantin Zaman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

Romania started the transition process by adopting a gradualist strategy for implementing its economic reforms, most of which being carried out independently and not through a concrete and cohesive policy package. The dynamics of restructuring on the labor market is analyzed by the Index of Employment Restructuring, the Rate of Unemployment Absorption and the Net Rate of Private Sector Expansion. These indices show that the capacity of Romanian economy to absorb the unemployment is very modest because the private activities are insufficiently developed due to a major delay in market reforms aimed to effectively stimulate the private initiative. With respect to efficiency, the Index of Labor Efficiency shows that the private sector loses continuously its efficiency because the privatization of public enterprises induced the phenomenon of sharing the inefficiency (the speed of restructuring the privatized firms is lower than the speed of privatization). The Index of Employment Adjustment indicates that this process is far from being completed in the Romanian economy, while the Index of Output Adjustment confirms that the private sector - despite its increasing share in overall activity - remains insufficiently developed in terms of productivity and economic efficiency.

Labour Market Efficiency Over the Transitional Period

Labour Market Efficiency Over the Transitional Period
Author: Constantin Zaman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

Romania started the transition process by adopting a gradualist strategy for implementing its economic reforms, most of which being carried out independently and not through a concrete and cohesive policy package. The dynamics of restructuring on the labor market is analyzed by the Index of Employment Restructuring, the Rate of Unemployment Absorption and the Net Rate of Private Sector Expansion. These indices show that the capacity of Romanian economy to absorb the unemployment is very modest because the private activities are insufficiently developed due to a major delay in market reforms aimed to effectively stimulate the private initiative. With respect to efficiency, the Index of Labor Efficiency shows that the private sector loses continuously its efficiency because the privatization of public enterprises induced the phenomenon of sharing the inefficiency (the speed of restructuring the privatized firms is lower than the speed of privatization). The Index of Employment Adjustment indicates that this process is far from being completed in the Romanian economy, while the Index of Output Adjustment confirms that the private sector - despite its increasing share in overall activity - remains insufficiently developed in terms of productivity and economic efficiency.

A Romanian Short Perspective Upon the Labor Market Management

A Romanian Short Perspective Upon the Labor Market Management
Author: Ana Maria Balan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN:

Contributing to a normal and balanced functioning of the national economy, the labor market role is to exploit efficiently the labor resources. It must continually adapt to the technological changes, modernization and general restructuring. The content of the labor market is given by all the economic relations that refer to employment and labor utilization; also it refers to providing social protection of the human factor. Romania's transition to a market economy necessarily requires the adoption of a strategy to respond to the multiple issues concerning the employment and the efficient use of labor; Romania have to adopt policies to adjust the balance between the supply and demand of labor and to avoid an explosion of unemployment. For this purpose the labor market management acts; this paper discusses its features and its functions, as well as the policies and the strategies issues that should be taken to Romania; at final offers some proposals concerning the importance of the continuous training, like a basic component of the labor market management.