ECONOMY OF HUMAN RESOURCES
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.