NUMBER AND STRUCTURE OF ROMANIA’S EMPLOYED POPULATION - EVOLUTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES AT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVEL

The contradictory evolutions of the indicators of labour force in Romania after 1900, with a trend hard to define, are sometimes difficult to explain using the classic statistical methods which show in certain cases surprising, atypical correlations. In this context, our paper presents the evolution of the employed population in Romania between 2002 and 2010, outlining the main dynamics and structural aspects. As a reinforcement of what was stated above, we realised a short-term forecast of the employed population and of the working age population , as well as a forecast of the structural changes of the employed population by development regions, using Markov’s chain method.