Schimbări în structura ocupațională și de venituri. România în context est-european Changes in the Occupational and Income Structure. Romania in Eastern European Context Section Articles

Abstract

This study analyze the transformation of the economic structure and the labor force from Romania in transition period in Central and East European context, starting with the statement that the transition from the planned state-economy to the free market economy caused main structural changes in labor force, the number of the employees in the industry decreased and increased those who worked in the services and in primarily sector (agriculture), as a Romanian specificity. Based on empirical analyses, it can be figured out that in last few years the occupational structure and the average incomes increased faster in Romania than in neighboring new EU member countries. In the same time, the inequalities in the monthly incomes between the employees form the different economic sectors had increased in the last years of the transition period from Romania. The empirical sources of the paper came for the official statistics produced by National Institute of Statistics from Romania, the CANSTAT Statistical Bulletin 2000-2003 series, regional or national surveys about the living standards.