Europe will remain the most visited touristic destination in the world with a total of 717 million tourists in 2020. The foreseen increase rate is 3.1% per year. This is one point lower than the world average, leading to a loss of market quota of Europe from almost 60% in 1995 to 46% in 2020....

There is considerable debate on the methods used to compute composite indicators of well-being. The fact that most of the weights of the principal sub-components of the composite indicators are equal, and that the determinants of well-being are, to a certain extent, correlated, makes the use of...

This paper questions the validity of the statistical methods currently used in computing the composite indicators of well-being from their main subcomponents. The facts that most of the weights of the principal sub-components of the composite indicators are equal, that the determinants of...

In view of knowing the essence of phenomena it is necessary to perform statistical data processing operations. This allows for shifting from individual data to derived, synthetic indicators that highlight the essence of various phenomena. The high volume and diversity of processing operations...

The protected natural areas, by their aesthetic, recreational, educational and scientific valences, represent extremely attractive tourist destinations, some of them unique at international level. Their touristic exploitation has different forms from a country to another, from a type of...

This study looks at how health, education, and economic development are inter-related in the case of Europe. Factorial analyses besides econometric models, implemented on a panel data from EUROSTAT show that the included variables are interrelated. The new members of the European Union are found...

The purpose of the article is to illustrate the importance of the output gap in analysing macroeconomic stability in general and business cycle dynamics in particular. Ten EU countries are considered, with five old members and five new members. For all ten countries the data for the period...

The paper is focused on the conceptual framework of economic resilience and vulnerability at national level taking into consideration both external and internal factors (shocks) including the countries’dimensional peculiarities. A special attention is paid to the resilience and vulnerability...

An impressive number of labour force migration/mobility models, both at national and international level, are presented in the literature. A large number of those either describe international migration versus internal migration or inter-regional migration in Europe or in other parts of the...

The research work consists of two parts. In the first theoretical part we analyse the formulae of revealed comparative advantages (RCA) and of the Grubel-Lloyd indices as an analysis instrument of international specialisation and of inter- and intra-industry one of national economies. The second...