Romanian Forest Sector Labor Force - Evolutions and Trends

Laurenţiu Ciornei () and Paula Munteanu ()
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Laurenţiu Ciornei: Center for Study and Research for AgroForestry Biodiversity “Acad. David Davidescu†, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Paula Munteanu: School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy (SCOSAAR), Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Chapter 32 in International Conference Innovative Business Management & Global Entrepreneurship (IBMAGE 2020), 2020, vol. 14, pp 436-449 from Editura Lumen

Abstract: As a trend of evolution, the labor force in the Romanian forestry sector is part of trajectory registered by the European Union, as a whole, because many of the member countries are still oriented on the traditional methods of administration, harvesting and processing. However, there are also developed countries with large forested areas (Finland, Sweden) that have embraced new technologies and adjusted management and production processes. This issue aimed, among other things, at reducing the number of people employed in the forestry sector. In Romania, increasing the number of the employees, based on the quantitative increase of jobs as result of the gross exploitation of resources, will slow down by adopting new technologies, reducing the consumption of natural resources, but also as an effect of economic shocks generated by the pandemic. For these reasons, according to our study, the low-skilled workforce will suffer, this being the most vulnerable category, as technological developments need employees with higher skills and abilities. Equally, the informal sector must be taken into account because it employs four times people more. Romania have to adopt those appropriate measures in order to help the incorporation of the labor force released from the forestry sector of resource exploitation into adjacent sustainable activities.

Keywords: Forest sector; sustainable development; labor force; new technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 M1 M2 O1 O3 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 978-1-910129-29-6
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DOI: 10.18662/lumproc/ibmage2020/32

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