Ciprian Panzaru

• West University of Timişoara

This study employs a qualitative methodology to investigate the implications of Romanian women’s migration to Italy for employment in the domestic care sector. The research is based on in-depth interviews conducted face to face with 20 Romanian women who have resided in Italy for over a decade, with the aim of capturing the details of their long-te...

This comparative research explores the factors and mechanisms that improve the scope and coverage of collective bargaining in different industrial relations regimes. Based on a unique protest event dataset and interviews with a diverse set of organisations, the research team identified challenges and threats, opportunities and resources available f...

The “Innovating the Use of Labour Market Intelligence within European Universities” (LMI-EUniv) project, set within the Erasmus+ programme’s Key Action 2, represents a pioneering effort to harness Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) for enhancing the alignment between higher education offerings and labour market demands across Europe. This initiative,...

This paper analyses the career path of higher education graduates to identify predictors of graduates’ labour market entry success. The data source was a tracer study conducted exhaustively on graduates from a large Western Romanian university. The labour market success was assessed through five variables: owning a job, the frequency of applying f...

Sport is an important part of daily human life. For instance, one of the best evidences is provided by the ancient tradition of the Olympic Games, first written records dating from about 2700 years ago. However, it is not necessary to go back so far to highlight the role of sport in human life. The lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic generated a...

The last few years have brought major changes to regional and local labour markets. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are a promising way to ensure the functionality of the labour market and, at the same time, to support continued growth in employment and strengthen the integration of many marginalised target groups into the labour market through...

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, governments were mainly concerned with hindering the spread of the virus and ensuring appropriate treatment for the patients who had contracted the disease. Only at a later stage, attention was directed towards social support services and the particular vulnerability of the sector regarding the users a...

The rapid swift towards digital transformations in a globalized modern economy is transforming the skills needed by Europe’s workers to maintain their jobs and remain actively integrated on the labour market. As the environment diversifies through the emergence of modern technologies, the working population advances the education for upskilling in...

The European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring publishes annual anthologies to gather perspectives from all over Europe and beyond on current topics related to regional and local labour markets. In the anthology of 2021, over 30 network members from ten countries reflect on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and state interventions or...

The European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring publishes annual anthologies to gather perspectives from all over Europe and beyond on current topics related to regional and local labour markets. In the anthology of 2021, over 30 network members from ten countries reflect on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and state interventions or...

This research examines several modellers of immigration flows deployed within the European Union (EU), as well as their economic consequences upon the most targeted ten migrant receiving countries. The paper’s aim is to identify specific ways in which migrants can contribute to host countries’ sustainable development through positive spillover upon...

The article is focused on the image of migration that Romanian academics transmit through the invisible curricula of the universities. These opinions are bound to become vectors of the future behaviour of graduates and legitimate a certain approach to brain drain. The goal of the research was to find how opinions and intentions on migration changed...

This is a book about how management and control decisions are made by persons who collaborate and possibly use the support of an information system. The decision is the result of human conscious activities aiming at choosing a course of action for attaining a certain objective (or a set of objectives). The act of collaboration implies that several...

The essence of Industry 4.0 is the connection between people, things and machines. In this context, several changes are expected to occur. Our article analyses the development of Labor Market in Industry 4.0. We proposed a conceptual model of Smart Labor Market (SLM). In our approach, the Smart Labor Market integrates, in an intelligent way, the ac...

The paper reviews recent advances in the domain of computer supported data driven decision-making and proposes a conceptual framework for the construction and implementation of a class of practical decision support systems named Labour Market Decision Support Systems (LM-DSS) to be applied to labour market analysis. LM-DSS are meant to support the...

This research explores the skills and competencies required in the labour market by screening job announcements through web mining and analyzing them using data mining techniques. The data has been extracted from the Romania Public Employment Service – NAE. The NAE, through its Electronic Service for Mediation of Labour Demand and Supply, provides...

The paper is focused on the analysis of the demographic risks which affect the social security system. The situation is analyzed based on projections of the population from Romania, for the period of time 2010 - 2060. The population projection was made by an adaptation of a cohort component method. For the projection of the mortality rate was used...

Worldwide discussion on the sustainability of social security systems is an extremely topical issue, especially since, in the current socio-economic conditions, these systems are undergoing a sever crisis. Romania's current situation is characterized by a major transformation of economic structures, by decreasing demographics, by increase in partic...

The research is focused on the analysis of the migration phenomenon in Romania, in terms of the geopolitical effects it has produced. Migration from Romania is relevant given its size; currently about 13% of the population is outside the country. This situation is the result of the events of the past 25 years: the opening of borders in early 1990,...

Nina Oding, Leontief Centre, St.Petersburg Big Data use: challenges and perspectives in Russia The development of the information society has led not only the production and the accumulation of data, but also to the creation of a variety of tools and methods of data processing and analysis. The use of huge amounts of data creates a new analysis t...

The article focuses on the migration phenomenon from Romania to the European Union and considers the key motivations which may have shaped the decision to migrate. The research was based on statistical data provided by Eurostat. The period which has been reviewed was from 1990 to 2010, and key indicators such as gross national product, average wage...

The first years of life are recognised as essential for the child's emotional development. During this period, the child's character and personality is being shaped. From this point of view, the environment may provide an opportunity for the child's development or a misfortune, depending on how it is configured. This article analyses the role of ch...

The paper analyses two sets of determinants, economic and non-economic, to assess the influence they exerted on migration in Central and Eastern Europe, from 2000 to 2010. In the category of economic factors we have analysed the doing business index and the labour market regulation index. In the category of non-economic factors we have included the...

This article reflects the evolution of the social security system in Romania after accession to the European Union. Social security states its specificity as a basic concept that encompasses all the collective measures established by legislation to maintain individual or family income, to provide income when some or all sources have been lost or ex...

Contemporary Romanian society is facing with many social problems that were not anticipated at all, arising from major changes in all spheres of social life and has a negative impact on the society. The changes produced in the sphere of attitudes and behaviours, social changes have led to increased social insecurity, suspicion and frustration, espe...