The paper studies the process of financial convergence in the EU, by using the stochastic Kernel density estimation. The analysis uses monthly data on the 10-year government bond yields from a number of 11 EU old Member States, and the period of analysis is 1980-2010. The paper finds evidence of...

This paper makes a comparison between the financing of health systems in six European Member States: France, Denmark, Spain, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, starting from the structure of financial allocations to health systems in the context of fluctuating macroeconomic developments marked by...

This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of business education provided by the process of lifelong learning, based on a panel dataset comprising the EU-27 countries. Business education is a valuable component of adult education, and the lifelong learning represents the main channel...

This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of business education provided by the process of lifelong learning, based on a panel dataset comprising the EU-27 countries. Business education is a valuable component of adult education, and the lifelong learning represents the main channel...

The global economic crisis and the subsequent weaker growth are putting under pressure welfare states in the EU. This paper aims at discussing the effects of the crisis at the social level and at identifying whether the classic European welfare state models (Nordic, Continental, Anglo-Saxon and...

The objective of this paper is to assess the stage of the new welfare regimes ofBulgaria and Romania, two neighbour countries with similar tempo in the Europeanintegration process. The paper analyzes first the influence of the European economicintegration on the Western and Eastern welfare...