POTENTIAL LABOUR FORCE BETWEEN DECLINE AND UNEMPLOYMENT. CASE STUDY: BUZĂU SUBCARPATHIANS

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to emphasize the current characteristics of the labour force, in its potential dimension, in Buzău Subcarpathians. For a better understanding of the current situation, its dynamics and the influencing factors were analysed in the post-communist period. The potential labour resources dynamics (1992-2010) emphasized a decreasing for the majority of the administrative units. At the same time, the total age dependency ratio registers an increasing for over 60% of these. A better situation, pointed by a tendency slightly upward of the potential labour resources, is specific to some administrative units with a higher development level and/or with a good accessibility towards nearby urban settlements. The analysis of the labour market emphasis the existence of some enterprises only in a few settlements, in which the workplaces are being occupied in general. Thus, the majority of the population is occupied with a subsistence agriculture which generates low incomes. Therefore, there is potential labour force which can be involved in a various range of economic activities, but it is not adequately capitalized. In this context, it is necessary to develop a rural development strategy based on a sustainable and efficient exploitation of the local resources that can allow the stabilization of the population and their access to the minimal services (education, health care etc.).

Keywords

• labour force
• Buzău Subcarpathians
• decline
• unemployment