Coordinator: Marius Răzvan Surugiu, PhD., senior researcher

The main scientific activity: studying the implications, costs and advantages of:

- the integration in the EU and NATO (from the perspective of the transition to the market economy);

- the globalization of economies;

- the new knowledge-based economy.

The research area includes:

• the demographic, educational and occupational dimensions of the workforce in Romania;
• employment (volume, occupational, educational, sectoral, regional structures, etc.);
• unemployment and unemployment rate (dimensions, typology, intensity, structural characteristics, prevention and combating mechanisms, etc.);
• policies and labor market management mechanisms
• the system of interrelationships between labor market policies and other types of policies (macroeconomic, fiscal, monetary, currency, social stabilization);
• salary cost and labor cost;
• the impact of the direct and indirect cost of labor (of the tax system) on employment, the expansion of the parallel labor market, the fracturing of economic and social cohesion;
• continuing professional education and training;
• phenomena of "decapitalization of human capital";
• disparities in the education process; the school-labor market relationship;
• internal and external migration - proportion, intensity, structures, flows;
• free movement of people and labor force;
• industrial relations, dialogue, partnership and social concertation;
• information/consultation/transparency.

Projects

Constant and valuable participation, nationally and internationally recognized in internal programs/contracts of the Romanian Academy, REM, other public or private institutions/organizations as well as Phare, UNDP, World Bank, ETF, ETUC, EIRO programs, etc.

Representative works:

• Constantin Ciutacu, Steliana Pert, Valentina Vasile, Dialog social si concertare în tarile candidate: România, ETUC, Bruxelles CIDE, 2001;
• Steliana Pert, Capitalul uman – factor cheie al cresterii economice durabile. Convergente si disparitati, CIDE, 2001;
• Ocupare si competitivitate. Factori. Mecanisme. Tendinte, în conditiile noii economii, IEN, 2001; Mihaela-Diana Preda, Ocupare si dezvoltare durabila, IEN, 2001;
• Constantin Ciutacu, Luminita Chivu, Ioan Valeriu Franc, România în fata unei mari dileme: societatea informationala vs suprapopulatia agricola si economia de subzistenta, în vol.”Societatea informationala – societatea cunoasterii. Concept, solutii si strategii pentru România”, Ed.Expert, Bucuresti, 2001;
• Constantin Ciutacu, Piata muncii, Editura Expert 2001;
• Luminita Chivu, Factori ai competitivitatii muncii în agricultura României, IEN, 2001;
• Valentina Vasile, Salariul în economia de tranzitie a României, IEN, 2000;
• Florin-Marius Pavelescu, Progresul tehnologic si ocuparea fortei de munca, IRLI, Bucuresti, 1997;
• Steliana Pert (coordonator), Evaluarea capitalului uman. Coordonate strategice ale evolutiei pietei muncii în România, IRLI, Bucuresti, 1997;
• Steliana, Pert Valentina Vasile, Venituri salariale. Diagnoza. Perspective. CIDE, 1997;
• Steliana Pert, Formarea profesionala a fortei de munca. Continut. Mutatii si exigente din perspectiva noii constructii europene, CIDE, 1997;
• Piata muncii în România: ocupare, flexibilitate, dezvoltare umana, CIDE, Bucuresti, 1994; Potentialul uman al unor tari din spatiul central si sud-est european, CIDE, 1993;
• Piata muncii în România în perioada de tranzitie. Mecanisme si politici de ocupare si combatere a somajului, CIDE, Bucuresti, 1992;
• Piata muncii din România în perioada de trecere la economia de piata. Dimensiuni. Caracteristici. Tendinte, CIDE, Bucuresti, 1991.