Impact of the Labor Market Policies for Ensuring Employment

This paper is a result of several years of efforts related to the study of the social policies applied on unemployment and employment and a study of the impact of the National Program “From Social Assistance to Employment” of the national labor market. The possibilities for social integration and reintegration of representatives of risk groups have been specially examined. The examined topics are presented in five chapters. The first chapter provides an analysis of the social policies and a specific analysis of the employment and unemployment in Bulgaria over the past few years, as the data is for the period from 2000 to 2011, which can be easily compared and interpreted with the data for 2002-2005 with respect to the performed research. The goals and objectives of active policies implemented since 1998 have been generally examined. Those of them which are realized and implemented under the Unemployment Protection and Employment Promotion Act and the Employment Promotion Act are presented in details