April 30, 2024
In 2023, 202.4 thousand economically inactive persons wanted to work, but were either not seeking a job or not available to start working in Romania. The share of underemployed persons in the total economically active population was 1.2%, with 0.1 percentage points lower than the previous year. Potential additional labour force comprised a number of 202.4 thousand persons, decreasing by 0.4% compared to the previous year. In 2023, the number of ILO unemployed was 455.6 thousand persons.
The unemployment rate is the most visible indicator resulted from the Households Labour Force Survey, used to characterize many of the economic and social aspects. Aiming to offer an enhanced and richer picture of the labour market situation and evolution, NIS also publish annually a set of 3 indicators, representing categories of employed or economically inactive persons, having some similarities with unemployed persons and different degrees of attachment to the labour market (comparative with the standard situation of the category they are part of), namely:
– underemployed persons;
– economically inactive persons who are seeking a job, but are not immediately available to start working;
– economically inactive persons who are not seeking a job, but are immediately available to start working.
The last 2 indicators (“economically inactive persons who are seeking a job, but are not immediately available to start working” and “economically inactive persons who are not seeking a job, but are immediately available to start working”), constitute together “the potential additional labour force”. Those 3 indicators constitute differentiating and overlap „areas” between employment and unemployment, on one side, and between unemployed and economically inactive, on the other side, as one can see in the diagram below. Among the economically inactive population aged 15-74 years (6235.4 thousand persons), 202.4 thousand persons were part of the potential additional labour force (down from previous year with 0.7 thousand).
Among them:
• 195.3 thousand persons were available to start working but did not look for a job. In 2023 the ratio between this category of persons and active population was of 2.4%.
• 7.1 thousand persons looked for a job but were not available to start working.
It should be noted that in 2023, 99.0 thousand persons were employed with part-time working programme wishing to work more hours than in present and were available to do so, being considered underemployed persons. This category of persons represented 1.2% of economically active population, 1.3% of employment and 35.6% of the total number of persons who worked part-time. The number of underemployed persons decreased as compared to the previous year with 11.0 thousand persons.
Source: Statistics Romania
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