Analysis of Principal Tendencies of Labour Market in the Republic of Moldova

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Savelieva Galina¹  Zaharov Svetlana² 

[1] PhD, Associate professor researcher, Center for Demographic Research, National Institute for Economic Research (CDR NIER), Republic of Moldova, [e-mail].;PhD, scientific researcher, Center for Demographic Research, National Institute for Economic Research (CDR NIER), Republic of Moldova;

关键词: demographic factors;    the covid-19 pandemic;    labour market;    the economically active and employed population;    unemployment;    tendencies;   

DOI  :  10.2478/hjbpa-2022-0010

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article presents the analysis of the principal tendencies in development of labour market in the Republic of Moldova in the period 2014-2020, including the period of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Negative natural growth and increased external migration over the last two decades have led to the population’ decline by about 25%, which had the negative impact on labour market contributing to the quantitative and qualitative decline in labour supply. The irreversible ageing process has led to a change in the structure of economically active and employed population by age and sex, as labour market has aged. The increase in the share of elderly population, who have a lower level of participation in labour market, has also influenced the rates of economic activity, which have decreased from 60% to 40%, while having a slight recovery in recent years. In addition to the problems mentioned above, there are also qualitative problems, including the informal employed population, whose share, after a period of decline in recent years, has begun to rise again (mainly in agriculture and construction), which indicates a slow pace of structural change in the national economy.

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