Econometric Analysis of Panel Data for Gender and Age Differences in the Unemployment in Romania

This paper presents the way in which is analyzed the impact of demand for labor, at the female and male population unemployed, in Romania, at NUTS II (8 regions), before the economic crisis and after installation. It uses econometric model with panel data, with the dependent variable, ILO unemployment rate for women and men, for the four age categories and, as independent variables, the rate of job vacancies across six major groups’ occupations: The data used are quarterly, obtained from the household labor force survey (LFS) and survey vacancies made/published by the National Statistic Institute.