LIFELONG LEARNING - NECESSITY FOR ROMANIAN LABOUR MARKET FLEXIBILITY

Beyond the conceptual advances and the abundance of terms that have been associated, lifelong learning should become operational in Romania since there are serious imbalances in the labour market, not only in terms of level of unemployment rates, but, most of all, in terms of the existing asymmetries between unemployment and long-term unemployment, employment and inactive population, employment structure by activity of national economy and the contribution to GDP etc. Lifelong learning must respond to urgent needs of labour market flexibility by increasing adaptability of workers in the context of the knowledge-based economy and the current crisis.