Abstract: In the beginning of years 2010, the aim of public policies is to ensure the balance between flexibility and security on the labour market, so that: more new jobs should be created; there should be conditions for the lifelong development of human resources; the skills and competences of workers should be more efficiently employed. Experience has shown that decreasing job protection has led to new jobs only on the short term. At the same time, the sole support of flexibility has had a negative impact on the ability of the market to create new jobs in the long run. During the past few years, we have been confronted with a pronounced segregation of the labour market into two categories of workers - highly-qualified, well-paid and safely employed individuals, and respectively poorly-qualified, poorly-paid individuals lacking secure employment - which has served to aggravate the insecurity on the job market for the second category. In this new context, the goal of this paper is to analyze how all these transformations are affecting on the one hand the Romanian labour market, and on the other hand the Romanian employment.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Daniela Zirra is a professor of Economics at Romanian-American University, Bucharest. She did her undergraduate work in 1996, and received the master degree in Human Resources Management in 1997, at The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Also, she received her Ph.D. in Economics in 2005 from Romanian Academy, National Institute of Economic Research Bucharest. Her area of expertise is microeconomics, macroeconomics and investments efficiency. She authored or co-authored over 25 scientific books or manuals and more than 50 papers published in reviewed journals or presented at international conferences (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society WSEAS; DAAAM International, Vienna, Austria; Faculty of Economics, South-West University of Neofit Rilski, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria; International Association of Academies of Sciences, Ukraine, Kiev, etc.). Until now, she was project manager or member in the project teams in 19 research projects or grants (national and international). Daniela Zirra is the Director of Economic Research Centre in Romanian-American University since July 2006. She also had collaborations with Professor Tahereh Hojjat, Ph.D. from De Sales University, Philadelphia, on Microeconomics courses (on-line) during November 2004 - June 2011. She was visiting professor in Tietgen Business College, Denmark in September 2010, and also in Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences, Finland in September 2011.