INCIDENCE AND DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN ROMANIA

The paper highlights the main characteristics of registered unemployme nt in Romania using a large sample of microdata (11,504 individual obs ervations). First, we examine the composition of the unemployment pool , as well as the elapsed unemployment duration along different dimensi ons. Second, we present some characteristics of experienced workers, w hose narrow specific skills make them one of, if not the most, vulnera ble categories in the unavoidable process of labour reallocation.(1)