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Unemployment extremes: jobless rate under 2% in Bucharest and Timis. One out of ten active person are jobless in Vaslui and Teleorman
Labour market in Romania is faced by the most acute personnel crisis in the last two decades. However there are counties with over 10% unemployment rate, which means that one out of ten active people do not work, Ziarul Financiar writes.
In Vaslui, for instance, the jobless rate is 10.19%, being 2.5 times higher than the average at national level (4.02% in December 2017), according to data of the National Agency for Labour Force Occupation (ANOFM).
Teleroman is second in the top of counties with the highest unemployment rate, with 10.02%. There are 15,000 unemployed in the county located 80km far from the Capital. Mehedinti, one of the poorest counties in point of investments, has unemployment of 9.4% and about 9,800 jobless people. How can such a high jobless rate be explained when employers complain about employee shortage?
“We had employees in Moldova and Teleorman to recruit people there and bring them to the centre and western parts of the country where they could be hired. But those people won’t work, they prefer to live on social aid,” said Horia Bugarin, the general manager of the recruiting and temporary labour force rental IHM Total Consult, Timisoara.
Data published by the Labour Ministry for the first two months of 2017 show that out of a total of 240,000 Romanians who receive the lowest guaranteed income (varying bwteen 140 and 530 lei monthly), most of them (over 8,000) are from counties with unemployment rate over the national average - Olt, Dambovita, Iasi, Teleorman and Vaslui. Iasi, the second largest county, is an exception with lower unemployment of 4%. Besides Vaslui, Teleorman and Mehedinti, the top of counties with high jobless rates includes Dolj (8.8%), Buzau (8.6%), Galati (7.8%), Olt (7.4%), Ialomita (6.7%), Bacau (6.6%) and Gorj (6.3%).
At national level, the jobless rate at the end of December 2017 was 4.02%, which means there were about 351,000 unemployed in Romania. Of them, only 21% (about 73,000 persons) received jobless support. The rest were in evidences of the occupation agency because they wanted to be taken into account when new jobs come up.
Ilfov is the county with the lowest unemployment rate - 0.6% and 1,200 jobless people. In Timis, the jobless rate is 1% (3,540 people), in Arad it is 1.5% (3,245 jobless) and in Bucharest 1.53% (18,300 recorded unemployed). “I think in Timis real unemployment is under 1% if we consider relocations to other areas. New investors come here, because they need trained people. However they found it difficult to understand the measure about the transfer of contributions from employer to employee,”Bugarin who leads a company with 2,400 employees said. He added that most Timis employers increased gross salaries to maintain the same net income. Employee salaries grew by 5% over the level given by the contribution transfer. The counties with lower unemployment are Cluj (2% in December), Sibiu (2.4%), Bihor (2.4%), Brasov (2.8%), Prahova (3%) and Bistrita Nasaud (3%).