Employment Strategy for Poverty Reduction. A Romanian Perspective

In this paper we aim to make a short analysis of the indicators specific to the labour market in order to highlight the main gaps between Romania and European Union. Overcoming the existent dysfunctions on the Romanian market depends on a new vision and management of the labour market, able to re-launch and support the human resource employment. Thus, it is necessary to implement some strategic policies that shall lead to the increase in employment from a quantitative, structural and qualitative point of view, and to the reduction of the poverty existing on the labour market implicitly, but also in general. Our purpose is to highlight the main active measures for the employment growth in Romania, focusing on continuing vocational training, as an active measure that we consider of major importance for the increase in employment and the reduction of in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate.