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• Miron Dumitrescu, Affiliation: National Institute of Economic Research - Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania;
• Magda Alina Manole, Affiliation: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania;
• Luminiţa Leocadia Sârbu, Affiliation: Valahia University, Târgovişte, Romania;
• Mihaela Daniela Niculescu, Affiliation: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania.

In all conditions of time and space, economic activity necessarily involves active work as a determinant factor of production and beneficiary of its results. In the market economy, labor services are provided to production, as with the other factors of production, through market transactions. This article aims labor factor, the role and characteristics of labor as a production factor and the employment in the EU. As a secondary market, labor market is influenced by other markets and generates, in turn, effects that are found in all other structures of the market economy system.

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