This profile provides a concise and policy-focused overview of the state of health and the healthcare system in Romania, as a part of the broader series of Country Health Profiles from the State of Health in the EU initiative. It presents a succinct analysis encompassing the following key...

Introduction : poverty reduction through land transfers -- Pro-poor reforms : the propertizing paradigm -- Pro-poor land reform in Eurasia -- The reform continuum : from China to Russia -- Smallholders : a fieldwork study of resilience and resistance -- Resilience : survival and growth of...

The global language of scholarly research is English and so the obstacle of getting noticed is montainous when the article is not written in the English language. Indeed, despite rapid advances in technology, the "tyranny of language" creates a segmentation inhibiting scholarly research and...

This paper addresses the link between native attitudes and return migration. We exploit the variation in xenophobia using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented crime provides a quasi-experimental setting to identify the impact of Italian attitudes on...

This paper addresses the link between native attitudes and return migration. We exploit the variation in xenophobia using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented crime provides a quasi-experimental setting to identify the impact of Italian attitudes on...

The present study, entirely original, covers several aspects referring to advertising texts published in Romania and France in the first decade of the 21st century: statements, intertextuality, figures (construction-related, sound-related and semantic), semantic links between advertising text...

The beauty and diversity of the Romanian folk costume, is the emblem of members recognition of a community, a mark of ethnic identity, is a means of communication, witness of civilization stages, evolution and structure mutations, with highly visible meanings nowadays, especially in the last...

This paper addresses the potentially causal link between native attitudes and migrants' intended duration of stay. We exploit the variation in perceived anti-immigrant sentiments using information on the media exposure of Romanian migrants in Italy. A unique shock in public attitudes towards...

Die Zahlen zur Beschäftigung und zum Leistungsbezug rechtfertigen es gegenwärtig nicht, die Zuwanderung aus Bulgarien und Rumänien pauschal als „Armutszuwanderung“ zu qualifizieren. Zur Jahresmitte 2013 waren rund 60 Prozent der Bulgaren und Rumänen im erwerbsfähigen Alter in...

The choice of the topic is motivated by the observation of the ambiguities that arise in current Romanian language, the only Romance language that has preserved the neuter gender from Latin (in French, Spanish and Italian, there is no neuter gender). Will it disappear from Romanian too?...

Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in terms of employment status at arrival). Among...

Das Recht auf Lohn für geleistete Arbeit und einige weitere arbeitsrechtliche Mindeststandards gelten prinzipiell für alle Beschäftigten unabhängig vom Beschäftigungsverhältnis und vom Aufenthaltsstatus. Arbeitgeber, die von diesen Mindeststandards deutlich abweichen, verletzen nicht nur...

Computer usage is continuously and rapidly expanding, especially in the urban environment, and Romanian ecotourism is progressively relying on promotion via online advertising.[1] Computer networks have extended, thus fostering the creation of websites in which every entrepreneur is present...

Before the onset of the global financial crisis in late 2008, countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) experienced strong economic growth. Demand for electricity increased steadily with gross domestic product (GDP). GDP grew, on average, 6.5 percent between 2000 and 2007, and...

Romanians, together with other Eastern Europeans, endured under communism confinement to the communist space, often described in terms of a geographic prison. The fall of communism brought Eastern Europeans the possibility of free movement. However, most Western states adopted restrictive...

The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) provides opportunities for employees with offices in geographically dispersed locations to communicate, share and collaborate on projects to achieve common business goals. This paper describes the experiences of two Romanian telecom...

The authors present, in a meticulous approach, the concept of best interest of the child, as it is regulated from the perspective of the new Romanian Civil Code. After a brief presentation of Romanian legislation regarding the concept of the best interest of the child, the authors make a...

Introduction -- Labor migration in Israel: theoretical context -- The evolution of government policies and the migrant labor employment system -- Employment practices: the system of placement agencies -- Living and working as non-Israelis: Filipino caregivers -- Thai agricultural workers --...

Intro -- Foreign Workers in Israel -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- The Challenge of Labor Migration Policies -- Israel: Its Major Dilemmas and Recent Labor Migration -- A Note on the Objectives of This Book -- Organization of This Book -- 2. Labor Migration in...