We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

With fortuitously timed data collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria, we revisit …

expenditure surveys. We apply this method to the case of Bulgaria using LSMS income and expenditure surveys before and after a …

Turks from Bulgaria into Turkey in 1989. In some locations, the rise in the labor force due to this inflow of repatriates …

Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU …

explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

– Bulgaria and Romania – the EU's poorest, unhappiest, and among the most corrupt members.We show that having close contacts … in Bulgaria and Romania. Given civil society's role for development in post-socialist Europe and the socio-economic and … institutional challenges that Bulgaria and Romania face compared with the rest of the EU, understanding the channels fostering civil …