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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2012  
         
  Article:   JOB-EXCHANGE FOR ROMANIA’S GRADUATES – SPATIAL DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN JOB SUPPLY AND DEMAND, 2010.

Authors:  IRENA MOCANU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

Job-exchange for Romania’s Graduates – Spatial Distinctions between Job Supply and Demand, 2010. The economic-financial crisis has reduced the job supply and increased unemployment. It would be expected that job-exchanges for young graduates (the organised framework to meet the specific supply and demand of this labour force segment) become more important and better results are being obtained from one year to the next. The aim of the present paper is to point out territorial distinctions between counties and the organising agencies in 2010 and outline the outcomes. The available data-base represents a synthesis of the characteristic quantitative and structural features distinguishing job-exchange agencies for graduates from the other types of agency engaged in this activity, published by the National Agency for Employment. Our analyses and assessments are based on the cartographic representations of those indicators suggestive for the subject under study. The results have revealed a direct dependence between the effective participation of economic agents and the quality and quantity of the offer made by each of them; the economic agents effectively participating in job-exchange events was under 57% in all the agencies studied; in terms of each agent’s offer, it is county agencies that head the table, local agencies and working points occupying the last places in the national hierarchy; nineteen county agencies had cumulated 75% of the total number of job demands, while local ones and working points registered a mere 13%. Since demand was in excess of offer in almost all job-exchange agencies, only 12.1% of the applicants actually got a work-place. The quantitative assessment of the extent to which job-exchanges contributed to the employment of graduates (by calculating the number of job-findings per participants), the year 2010 proved better than 2009, but less so if compared to other types of job-exchange agencies. Qualitative assessments (by type of school graduated by the applicants) indicate that high-school, post-high-school, vocational and apprentices-school leavers benefited the most, they representing 74% of all the graduates employed in 2010.

Keywords: job-exchange, job demand, job supply, territorial distinctions, Romania.
 
         
     
         
         
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