Who is Working Less and Why?

Even though the unemployment rate remains the main indicator that measures the labor underutilization, it is not able to reflect the total lack of work in a country, but also other insufficiencies to capture the volume of work at national level. The statistical community devoted efforts to introduce supplementary measures to quantify of work underutilization, in order to have a better view of less employment and wasted working time.The main objective of the present paper is to analyze the underutilization of the capacity of the labour force in Romania in line with the demographic, social characteristics as well as education level and status in employment. The paper will also reflect an evidence of disparities of different category of underemployment across the geographical regions in the country and the main reasons of labour underutilization.