In the view of the economic recovery, the European Union encourages member states to rapidly implement a policy convergence at competitive levels, coherent with the internal single market. In this context, economic competitiveness should have a leading place within the structural policies...

This paper examines the evolution of the employment rate in Romania. I employ a panel data approach, considering the 42 counties, in order to explore the relationship between labour productivity, average earnings, investments and employment. The results reveal a positive impact of the average...

This paper examines the evolution of some important macroeconomic indicators for the EU analysing the changes caused by the crisis in the last years and tries to find which one of them is affecting the employment rate. We therefore employ a panel data approach, considering the 27 countries. The...