Romania has a youth unemployment rate above the European average. European average youth unemployment was 21.4% and 23.7% in Romania. Compared to the national unemployment rate (6.9%), the youth is four times higher.
According to Eurofound, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the youth unemployment rate in 2012 would be even higher, by 25% (from an average of 22.5%), “lost generation” of Romania numbering about 850,000 people unemployed. “If true, the numbers are catastrophic. The social primed bomb that could explode next day. Romania before 1989 were more than 11 million jobs. Now there are about four million, “commented Stephen Burzănescu, professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of West.
A peculiarity of Romania from other European countries is that young people leave school early, especially those from disadvantaged families. And if it is difficult for those with a university to find a job, those without training are less likely. In these circumstances, the young remain in cartridges becoming a burden to the state welfare budget. “We speak about once a trend that these young people are poorly trained. We do not have those schools who qualified before 1989 drew on professional large areas: health, commercial, educational, auto mechanics. Through public policies that have been applied, no school no longer produce qualified personnel only unskilled “says sociologist Alfred Bulai, professor at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration.
LAURA BELME
There is a national plan for jobs in 2013, which would include personalized career guidance programs and stimulating business initiative. European officials Romania could access 220 million euros allocated to support young people to assist at least 300,000 people. (TRANSLATED BY LAURA BELME)
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