The transformations in the labor market, social security, social assistance and human resources development as well as the relations between different public systems are issues of special consideration in recent years because of the dynamic changes in economic and social environment in...

The paper discusses the role and the challenges before Public Employment Services (PES) of the European Union in contemporary conditions of dynamically changed economic and social environment. Recent trends on labor markets (in European and national Bulgarian scope) are analyzed outlining the...

In recent decades in each EU member state there is an increasingly strong view that public employment services should play a more active role on labor markets. In response to fundamental changes in economic and social sphere a new set of functions is assumed to them which impose the search and...

The labor market policy in the Republic of Bulgaria in the transition period and nowadays has in different extents reflected the needs of the economy. Initially developing along with the labor market, its character is mainly preventive. Later, it includes more active programs and activities...

Development of active policies on the labor market nowadays is highly impacted by the goals of achieving efficiency and effectiveness. Monitoring and evaluation of the implemented policies is the key moment because of the information they provide in decision-taking, planning and management as a...

Current paper presents challenges to development of labor market and social policies in transition periods through the example the transition from planned to market economy in the Republic of Bulgaria. Some important implications are made about passive and active social programs as a whole and...

Unfavorable negative demographic trends in the country leading to processes of decreasing and aging of labor resources, sustainably unbalanced character of labor market, characterized by high unemployment and low labor demand, the availability of vulnerable groups and significant regional...

The labor market policy in the Republic of Bulgaria in the transition period and nowadays has in different extents reflected the needs of the economy. Initially developing along with the labor market, its character is mainly preventive. Later, it includes more active programs and activities...

The active programs are a means of raising the competitiveness of labor force, mobilization of labor resources and increase in economic activity of population. The active policy also implements a very important socially distributing function, especially in conditions of availability of...

The labor market policy in the Republic of Bulgaria in the transition period and nowadays has in different extents reflected the needs of the economy. Initially developing along with the labor market, its character is mainly preventive. Later, it includes more active programs and activities...