Active Measures for Stimulating the Employment of Labour Force and its Impact in the Gorj County

Ecobici, N and Paliu-Popa, L (2007): Active Measures for Stimulating the Employment of Labour Force and its Impact in the Gorj County. Published in: Labour market and the role of education, Proceedings of International Scientific Round Table, Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana Sofia, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Faculty of Economics, Constantin Brancusi University of Targu Jiu No. ISBN 978-961-6354-74-5 (2008): pp. 42-62.

Abstract

In Romania the government tried to stimulate the employment trough active measures since 2002. Therefore, there are two types of measures: one that attempts to increase the chances of employment of the persons that are looking to work. These measures include the following: job-matching services, information and counselling services, organizing vocational training courses, benefits granting to the unemployed who take up employment before the end of the period of entitlement to the unemployment benefit, the stimulation of the labour force mobility. The other one is destined to stimulate employment of the unemployed (unemployed over 45 years or single providers for the monoparental family, unemployed who are three years away from pension, graduates, disabled persons) and create new jobs through granting loans to SME’s for new jobs creation. In fact, the paper is a guide of the active measures used to employment in Romania. In the end, we present the impact of those measures calculated for Gorj County till December 2006.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: employment, active measures, job-matching services, information and counselling services, organizing vocational training courses, benefits granting to the unemployed, force mobility
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure; P - Economic Systems > P4 - Other Economic Systems > P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E26 - Informal Economy ; Underground Economy; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J23 - Labor Demand

References

- The Law no. 1/1991 for unemployment protection and their vocational returning in labour - The Law no. 76/2002 for the unemployment insurance system and employment stimulation - Government Decision no. 174/2002 for approval of method norms regarding the applying the Law no. 76/2002 - Government Decision no. 377/2002 for approval of the procedures regarding the acces to the measures of employment stimulation, the ways of financing and the implement’s instructions - National Agency for Employment available: http://www.anofm.ro