Challenges for Romania’s employment policy in the Real Economy

Marinela, Simuţ Ramona and Lavinia, Delcea (Săutiuţ) (2012): Challenges for Romania’s employment policy in the Real Economy. Published in: Crisis Aftermath: Economic policy changes in the EU and its Member States, Conference Proceedings, Szeged, University of Szeged , Vol. ISBN 9, (2012): pp. 465-480.

Abstract

According to the statistics released by the Romanian National Institute of Statistics, our country registered during the last years an increase of the unemployment rate. In this paper we try to establish if and how the world economic crises influenced this increase.

After a short review of the established theories and models in the field, our paper analyzes the evolution of the Romanian unemployment rate during the last years, in order to identify a number of factors which determined its evolution as well as in order to point out the importance of these factors.

The paper continues with a study of the employment policy promoted by the Romanian government and ends with a forecast of the unemployment rate for the immediate following period.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: unemployment; policy; forecast
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C5 - Econometric Modeling; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General

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