In this paper we investigated the impact of some indicators on the average earnings at county level in Romania for the period 2000-2012. After a short statistical analysis of the indicators used in this study and after excluded Ilfov and Bucharest, we grouped the counties into three main...

Training programs are an important tool of human resource management, especially in case of technological and organizational changes inside a company. According to the human capital theory, trainings generally lead to increased post-training wages. Having this into consideration, this paper aims...

We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and the interaction between policies and population...

We compare the distributional effects of policy changes presented as fiscal consolidation measures in nine EU countries that experienced large budget deficits following the financial crisis of the late 2000s and subsequent economic downturn, using the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD. The nine...

Education is one of the most important factors of allocation and matching on the labour market2. However, there are important cross-national differences with respect to unemployment rate of those with tertiary education, youth transition to the world of work and quality of jobs in which educated...

The world economic recession caused the loss of jobs for 34 million people between the years 2008 and 2009, thus finding viable alternatives for job creation is a global priority. In this context, our work’s objective is to study the effects of green economy development on job creation at...

The present study attempts to make a diagnosis of the progress of European Union member states in the transition towards the knowledge economy. We used the World Bank KAM Methodology developed in the programme Knowledge for Development and the database available on the web page of the World...

The paper deals with the Romanian consumer’s profile, analyzed in terms of household expenditure structure, by main destinations for food, non-food, services and taxes components, and household’s consumption, in terms of size and structure of food consumption. <p> Synthetic images of...</p>

In this paper we investigated the earnings inequalities in Romania. Our approach starts with a statistical analysis regarding the Gini index among several personal characteristics (level of education, seniority, economic activity), for males and females and for the major groups of occupation....

The wage gap issue as well as that of income inequality has been a key topic in economics. The supervision of these gaps is essential in terms of labour stimulation and orientation in order to support social progress and to maintain the economic and social cohesion. Starting from a positive...