In this paper, we aim to highlight the peculiarities of the Romanian counties from the point of view of employment. Moreover, we intend to analyse the relationship between employment (under the aspect of structure and efficiency) and economic development in order to show that disparities at the...

The employees represent a very important segment of the labor market and its dynamics depends on the development level of a country. In order to highlight the place and role of the employees on the Romanian labor market our paper starts with the analysis of the employment structure by...

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...

This paper highlights some peculiarities of labour market in the urban and rural areas, both at national level and at the level of the eight development regions of Romania. Moreover, the paper underlines the implications of the regions’ degree of urbanisation on employment and economic...

The purpose of the present study is to empirically investigate the effect of economic growth on employment in EU countries, between 2000 and 2010. The main findings of the paper suggest the existence of a low employment elasticity of economic growth in EU, but this has significant differences...

Taking into consideration the EU objective set by the Europe 2020 Strategy, i.e. to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy, which at the same time implies a growth in employment and labour productivity, our main research question is if there is a trade-off between employment and...

Since workers are heterogeneous in terms of their skill levels and competences, the composition of labor force is important for the quantity and quality of human capital. This paper focuses on the importance of labor quality, as measured by the change in labor composition index, and its effects...