Romania, Hungary and Slovenia are the member states that recorded the largest increase in the share of public sector employees in the total number of employees between 2000 and 2016, according to Eurostat data.
At the European Union level, the percentage remained between 15% and 17% and in 2016 it was 16%.
According to Eurostat, civil servants and other government employees (at the national, regional and local levels), as well as armed forces, are included in the category of government employees.
In 2016, the highest shares were registered in Sweden (29% of total employees), Denmark (28%), Finland (25%), Estonia (23%), Lithuania, France and Hungary (each with 22%).
The lowest shares – in Germany (10%), Luxembourg (12%), the Netherlands (13%), Italy (14%), Portugal, Ireland and Spain (each with 15%) and Romania (slightly over 15%).
Data for Romania and Hungary correspond to 2015 and are the latest available at Eurostat.
The survey on the labour market dynamics at the level of the main employing industries in Romania between 2016 and 2017 (conducted for the Association of Private Investors in Romania) offers the picture of what happened in our country between 2015 and 2017 in the hiring process within a segment of the public sector, namely the general public administration service sector.
This sector includes, among other things, the administrative services of central, regional and local executive and legislative bodies, as well as the administration and supervision of tax operations.
Between 2015 and 2016, the number of contracts in this field increased by 9.95%, namely 10,509 individual employment contracts.
For the interval 2016 – 2017, the advance was a record, of 16.62%, or 19.309 jobs.
