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Challenges to labor market development in Bulgaria
Challenges to labor market development in Bulgaria

Author(s): Venelin Terziev, Stefan Stanchev
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Сдружение „Академия за иновации и устойчивост“
Keywords: labor market; employment; unemployment; policy

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines challenges to labor market in the Republic of Bulgaria. The analyses of its development from the beginning of the transition to the market economy, structural changes in employment and unemployment, individual labor supply and policy of building a functioning labor market reveal specific factors of the unemployment and the growth in the country. Current problems are dicussed and general conclusions about future development are drawn on the basis of the examined aspects of labor market development influenced by the periods of economic development and the place and the roles of labor market policies in the general economic policy.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 19-36
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English