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In this section readers will find information about the duration of the research project, its objectives and milestones, financing and contracting institutions and the budget for the period 2011-2014.


Name of the research project:
Planificare economică, învăţământ superior şi acumularea capitalului uman în România în timpul regimului comunist (1948-1989).
*proiect de cercetare finanţat de Consiliul Naţional al Cercetării Ştiinţifice.
Economic Planning, Higher Education, and the Accumulation of Human Capital in Romania during Communism (1948-1989).
*research project financed by the National Research Council.
Code of the research project: PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0476
Number of contract: 106/2011

The duration of the research project: 05.10.2011-30.09.2016.

Short description: 
Human capital is considered by a significant number of economic historians and by the mainstream development theory as an important factor of economic growth.
The general objective of the project is to highlight the role of higher education as a factor of economic development in Romania during communism. In order to achieve this goal, the project has several operational objectives, aiming to clarify following issues:
•    The relation between the general planning of economic development and the allocation of study places for higher education. This will include both the total number of study places, and their distribution for different fields of study. 
•    Changes in the entry requirements and selection mechanisms for would-be students in Romania during communism.
•    The decision-making process and mechanisms contracting Romanian higher education during the 1980s
•    The accumulation of human capital through higher education in communist Romania.
•    The consequences of the communist planning of higher education for the post-communist labor-market
The project will provide important knowledge for the economic and social history of Romania during communism, for the planning and decision-making processes inside the communist system. It will be relevant also for the current debates regarding the methods to measure human capital in non-market economies.

Operational objectives and milestones :

Operational objective 1. The relation between the general planning of economic development and the allocation of study places for higher education
- The general pattern of decision-making in the planning of Romanian higher education during communism.
- The quantitative reconstruction of the total number of study places for higher education allocated centrally during the period 1948-1989, and their breakdown according to study fields, forms of study and institutions of higher education.
- 2 case-studies regarding the decision-making process regarding the allocation of study places for higher education. The cases will be selected in accordance to the magnitude of change compared to the previous year and considering the availability of relevant sources.

Operational objective 2. Changes in the entry requirements and selection mechanisms for would-be students in Romania during communism.
- Inventory of the regulations regarding the access to institutions of higher education.
- The quantitative reconstruction of the competition for study places for a selected number of study fields and institutions.
- 2 case-studies regarding the concrete functioning of entry requirements to specific institutions of higher education. The cases will be selected according to their relevance for the whole system of higher education and considering the availability of relevant sources.

Operational objective 3. The decision-making process and mechanisms contracting Romanian higher education during the 1980s.
- Identification of the major cuts in the allocation of study places during the 1980s (based on milestone 2 of Operational objective 1)
- Case study on the decision-making process of the first major cut of the total number of study places
- Case study of the arguments and actors resisting the contraction of the Romanian higher education

Operational objective 4. The accumulation of human capital through higher education in communist Romania.
- Workshop on the current debates and controversies about the development of human capital in communist systems
- The quantitative reconstruction of the stock of education for selected years (considering the available studies and data)
- The quantitative reconstruction of the wages for graduates of higher education, compared with those for employees without higher education
- 1 case study regarding the accumulation of human capital in a particular economic sector. The choice of this sector will be determined according to the availability of relevant sources.

Operational objective 5. The consequences of the communist planning of higher education for the post-communist labor-market.
- Quantitative reconstruction of the stock of higher education graduates in the early 1990s (with breakdowns according to fields of study, age and location)
- Comparison between the demographic trends and the quantitative evolution of higher education during communism and in the first decade of post-communism.
- Qualitative analysis of selected cases of professional conversion in post-communist Romania.

Institution financing the project:

Consiliul Naţional al Cercetărilor Ştiinţifice
Address: 21-25 Mendeleev Str., 010362, Bucuresti, Sector 1.
Tel: 021 302 38 50; Fax: 021 311 59 92.

UNITATEA EXECUTIVĂ PENTRU FINANŢAREA ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTULUI SUPERIOR, A CERCETĂRII, DEZVOLTĂRII ŞI INOVĂRII
Address: 21-25 Mendeleev Str., 010362, Bucuresti, Sector 1.


Contracting institution:

Universitatea din Bucureşti
Address: 36-46 M. Kogălniceanu Bd., 050107, Bucureşti, Sector 5.
Tel./Fax: +40-21-307 73 00. +40-21-313 17 60
Contact: Rector Professor Ph.D. Mircea Dumitru.
Web-site: www.unibuc.ro

  
  

Budget of the research project
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