Romania, the third country in Europe in terms of the share of the population that does not work, although it is of working age

Friday 26th April 2024 05:23 PM

Almost a third of Romanians of working age do not work, according to new Eurostat data.

Romania is an economy in which there are two seemingly contradictory situations: many people do not have a job, but there are also enough people who work below their qualifications, Hotnews.ro shows.
In 2023, the overqualification rate in Romania was around 16% (compared to the EU average of 22%), according to Eurostat data, which considers that an employee is overqualified if he has higher education than the qualification level required by the job.

Romanian women have a slightly higher overqualification rate than men, Eurostat also shows. Among EU countries, the overqualification rate was highest in Spain (36%), followed by Greece (31%) and Cyprus (30%). The lowest rates were recorded in Luxembourg (5%), Denmark and the Czech Republic (each 13%).

In 18 of the 27 EU countries, women had higher overqualification rates than men, with the biggest differences being recorded in Malta and Slovakia (both +8 percentage points (pp)) and Italy (+7 pp). In 9 EU countries, men had higher overqualification rates, with the biggest differences being recorded in Lithuania (+5 pp), Latvia (+4 pp) and Bulgaria (+3 pp).