Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing debate. One view suggests there are fundamental changes in the labor market that imply a long-term higher rate of unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy...

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing debate. One view suggests there are fundamental changes in the labor market that imply a long-term higher rate of unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy...

Professor Christopher Pissarides was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen ‘for their analysis of markets with search frictions’. Though Pissarides is best known for his work in this area, it is only part of a very extensive research agenda...

The article analyses the relations between unemployment and emigration in Bacau and Vaslui counties, in a comparative outlook. The article starts with an analysis on Romania situation concerning the two phenomena. The second part brings forward the two counties, Bacau and Vaslui, trying to...

The following paper shows the transition from internal to external migration and places Vaslui County into a spatial and time frame from the perspective of population mobility. Moreover, the consequences of the downgrading of internal migration by international migration are subject to the...

The year’s economy shows an increased unemployment rate, decreased housing values, descending stock markets, decreased interest rates, products’ prices impossible to control from the consumers’ perspective. In the last five years, they have felt the pressure of the crisis’ effects which...

Unemployment is one of the negative phenomenon which occur with great intensity during the transition. It is encountered in any economy; in our country, the unemployment have reached high proportions. As a global macro-flow, unemployment is generated by cases dealing with the economic situation...

Purpose: The economic crisis in Greece has caused widespread suffering both in society and the economy. Among other things, new forms of geographical mobilities emerged highlighting the country's inability to retain a scientifically skilled workforce. One of the most important scientific...

The number of new apprenticeship training contracts has been declining for years. The decline can be explained by a variety of factors. It can initially be assumed that the economic development due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated loss of training places offer an explanation. However,...

The degree to which workers identify with their firms, and how hard they are willing to work for them, would seem to be key variables for the understanding of both firm productivity and individual labour-market outcomes. This paper uses repeated crosssection ISSP data from 1997 and 2005 to...