Towards the late 90’s, together with overcoming the shock of transition, most countries in Central and Eastern Europe began a process of profound reform of the pension systems. The aim of these reforms was mainly ensuring the financial sustainability of the pension systems often without taking...

In recent years, European countries have faced a number of challenges like, for example, the technological change, the acceleration of globalisation, the considerable ageing of European societies. In this context, a more flexible labour market combined with satisfactory levels of security is...

Social partners have different visions about flexicurity both conceptual point of view and of some the eventual mechanisms of implementing this concept. They have in mind the implementation of flexicurity only in their interest area, some of them are emphasasing flexibility while other social...

In a world characterized by change, stress at work is a major challenge to workers’ health and to the success of their organization. If to this pressure of changing environment is added the pressure from the working environment caused by improper sizing of work, insufficient control over...

All Central and Eastern European countries have achieved reforms of their pension systems varying in orientation and depth. We have presented the most important moments in the history of reforms of six countries (Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria) and we have tried...

Gender issues and concerns about its incorporation into all Community and national policies enjoy attention, both on the agenda of decision makers from the European Union and the Member States. Moreover, equality between women and men is one of the fundamental principles contained in the Charter...

The flexicurity concept – a combination of flexibility and security strategies, specific to each country – is a successful outcome of the 2010 Lisbon Strategy. Ever since 2000, this concept has been implemented for continuing the European labour markets reform. The conclusion of the Mission...

Romania aims at reducing the economic and social gaps to the EU developed Member States. This requires an economic sustainable growth. An increased labor productivity is one of the main factors of competitiveness at national level and of sustainable economic development.

The effects of the financial and economic crises are observed at the Romanian public budget level, too. The study examines the main developments in the context of the crisis and offers some solutions on the necessary measures at the fiscal and budgetary policies level to alleviate the negative...

Financial crisis has an impact on the real economy, especially through the game central banks have tried to restrict loans to finance production, thus contributing to the fall production. The report request offer, economy tries to play through adjust prices on competitive markets. If banks try...