The purpose of the paper is to analyze and present the self-employment needs in some European countries, being the result of a survey realized in Austria, Finland, Poland and Romania in the Leonardo da Vinci program “ Self-Employment - Guidance and Counselling for Self-Employment”. The aim...

In the last decades, the employment of persons with disabilities became a priority for the social policy from many countries. Usually, such policies are oriented in two directions: to support the persons with disabilities seeking jobs and to provide for the employers who hire these persons some...

In Romania in the last years the number of the employed students increased continuously. Their perceptions about the labor market are useful for the efforts to increase the Romanian education efficiency. This paper explores the employed students’ opinions regarding some essential aspects of...

In the last decade Romania’s trade balance experienced substantial deficits. This external disequilibrium which affected the macroeconomic stability could be ameliorated by increasing the exports. Romania’s adhesion to the European Union in January 2007 created new opportunities for the...

The adhesion to the European Union imposed to Romania major changes for the main indirect taxes. In this article we study the implications of these changes on the imports from EU. We conclude that the most significant effect the settlements had regarding the payment of VAT for the...

This paper examines, in the tradition of descriptive approaches of decision-making, how Romanian executives actually make decisions. It is based on an investigation in which managers from Romania were interrogated about some aspects of the decision-making. The conclusion of this study is that...

In the last years, the labor market from Romania was affected by significant changes. The economic recovery and the Romanian workers migration towards wealthier countries led to a significant decrease of the unemployment. Moreover, some sectors of the national economy confront problems given by...

The housing market could interact with the monetary policy in several ways. This paper approaches the situation of Romania where the national currency depreciation or the interest rates raise provoked, in the past, virulent reactions of the mortgage debtors. In these circumstances, the central...