ASPECTS REGARDING THE PLACE AND ROLE OF THE EMPLOYEES ON THE LABOUR MARKET IN ROMANIA FOR THE LAST TWO DECADES

The employees represent a very important segment of the labor market and its dynamics depends on the development level of a country. In order to highlight the place and role of the employees on the Romanian labor market our paper starts with the analysis of the employment structure by professional status, in the last two decades (1990-2009), continues with highlighting the existing differences between Romania and the member states of the European Union and ends by analyzing the relationship between salary-earning work and the development level of a country. By means of this paper we want to draw the attention on the atypical character of the changes in the employment structure in Romania by professional status, manifested through the extremely high share of the self-employed as well as of the contributing family worker, to the detriment of the employees.