Unemployment in Romania - Territorial Disparities in the Last Two Decades

Abstract

The paper represents an analysis on national and counties levels of the indexes “number of unemployed people” and “unemployment rate”, but also an outline of the unemployment’s structural characteristics. This study has a temporal dimension (the interval between 1991 and 2008) and a territorial one (a detailed approach of the statistical-territorial differentiations (NUTS III, county level) of the two indexes mentioned upper. Each specific moments of the unemployment’s dynamic and each type of areas (with low or high unemployment) are analyzed in light of their causes, the main objective being to identifying the complex and changeable interdependences established between the socio-economical context, the legislative, the political ones and the unemployment phenomenon.