THE IMPACT OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AFTER 1990 ON DEMOGRAPHY AND HUMAN HABITAT OF PETROȘANI DEPRESSION.

The Petrosani Depression, considered to be the most important exponent of the hard coal mining industry in Romania, represents today an area characterized by serious social and economic problems. The economy of this region still depends strongly on the mining industry, which makes the other sectors underdeveloped. The failure of the restructuring process from the Petrosani Depression generated a series of serious consequences such as the reduction of the employed population, to which is added the difficulty of finding a new job, either due to the low supply of jobs compared to the demand, or due to the technical specialization of mining employees, which limited their employment opportunities in other economic sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]