%0 Journal Article %T CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HUNGARIAN AND ROMANIAN LABOUR MARKET %A Zsuzsanna G£¿D£¿R %J Societate £¿i Politic£¿ %D 2011 %I Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad %X After the fall of communism serious changes occuredin the field of employment in the post-communist countries. These changeshappened simultaneously with significant turns in the European Union¡¯s labourmarket and employment strategies. The accession into the Union meant both achance and a challenge for the actors on the labour market in thetransformational countries, because they had to make great changes within ashort time in a socioeconomic environment where the relations on the labourmarket had been extemely rigid. This paper aims to describe this processthrough the example of Hungary and Romania. %K labour market %K employment rate %K social security %K crisis %K the European Union statistics %U http://www.uvvg.ro/socpol/images/stories/2011-1/2.pdf