The sociological research whose results are given in this paper was conducted in the month of July 2009 in the rural community of Sarmizegetusa, located in Hunedoara County on the border with Caras-Severin County. There has been investigated a total of 174 households and the main issues...

The Jiu Valley, or Petrosani coal basin, is an important economic region of Romania, situated at the springs of the Jiu River, between the Eastern Carpathians. It is a geographical area that emerges and develops from a social, economic and cultural point of view after mid-nineteenth century, as...

Nowadays, unemployment still is a threatening as a result of the quantitative and qualitative lack of balance between labour demand and offer. Under such circumstances, a very important part is played by the implementation of certain active measures with a view of increasing the degree of labour...

After tens of years during which unemployment was not officially admitted, centrally planned economy claiming complete labour employing, this phenomenon has appeared since 1990. The transition to the market economy and the massive re-structuring of certain branches of the economy considered as...

Solidarity among the citizens of the European Union, economic and social development as well as cohesion are declared objectives stated in Amsterdam Treaty; their accomplishment should be assured by the states – members owing to implementing European regional policy financed by the Structural...

The level of pensions in Romania represents a topic of passionate debates within the political class, beginning with 1990 until nowadays. The alarming increase of the number of pensioners that has surpassed the number of employees in the economy correlated with the level of economical and social...

The paper is an attempt to point out the role of a series of Romanian financial and credit institutions in the transfer of certain industrial companies, and in our case of mining companies from the property of foreign capital into property of the Romanian capital.

After the First World War the Romanian society, its industry with the extractive industry in particular, enters a new and prolific stage of development. Within this context, the Romanian mining societies, among which „Mica” company are being established, with the declared purpose of...

Handling bank interest according to the main factors considered to influence the credit for agriculture: 1. size of the authorised capital of the trade agent from agriculture; 2. size of the cultivated area and of living stock, having as starting element the idea of optimum areas and of optimum...

Within the other policies of the EU, social policy is to be found among those which are not strongly integrated, the member states still having the last word regarding its co-ordination. Nevertheless, there are voices that support the foundation of a common social policy at the European level,...