Labor force between desideratum and reality

Abstract

The scientific approach of the study follows two perspectives on the labor market: a first analysis is dedicated to the employees absorbed on the labor market and of the companies that benefit from European funds in order to get out of the world economic crisis more easily. According to the National Institute of Statistics, the number of employees in the Romanian economy reached 4.984 million employees in September 2019, compared to 4.943 million employees in September 2018. New employment in the construction, wholesale and retail sectors, health and social assistance, hotels and restaurants, transport and storage, IT and consulting led to an increase in the number of employees in the economy by 41,000 between September 2018 and September 2019. The sectors that helped the economy reach the threshold of 5 million employees in 2020 were the constructions from public and private investments and the manufacturing industry. The second perspective of the study aims at the standard of living of employees' households and the purchasing power of their incomes in order to cover not only the basic needs of food, clothing, housing, its maintenance, but also the satisfaction of having a social life, of evolve professionally, to go out with family on the weekend, to meet relatives or friends etc.