EDUCATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY
EDUCATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: In the knowledge-based society when changes are fast, social and economic development depend on the quality of human resources development (HRD). Educated persons are more productive and have more opportunities to play an active role in the development of companies. According to the Global labor full report June 2012, carried out by McKinsey Global Institute, until 2030 the labor market will face unbalances: there will be a deficit of qualified workers of 13%, while the number of unqualified workers will increase with 10% as related to the request on the labor market. In the given context, learning towards specialization represents a need for preventing disparity between the competences requested by the market and the one held by workers. Due to the information technology environment, many e-learning opportunities appeared, enabling specialization on the labor market. The studies carried out show that in terms of unemployment there are some differences between the persons with higher education studies and those without higher education studies and the implications of long term unemployment are too major in order to neglect long life learning. The paper proposes an analysis of the situation of education and unemployment in the knowledge-based society, when new technologies and online learning create opportunities, but also the need for employees to improve their abilities in order to adapt to the constantly changing labor market.

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