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The paper focuses on the evolution of the labor laws from early Acts regarding the guilds to the unification of regulation in labor field, following the territory unification of Romania and international developments and achievements in the field. The existence of social security rights stipulated in different laws and in force only for some Provinces of the country and in accordance with the ratification of the Versailles Treaty by Romania, Romanian legislation regarding social security and labor law entered a new era and led to the unification of social insurance law nationwide, known as Ioani?escu Act of 1933. The act contained regulations on occupational diseases that were treated as work accidents, and were granted, upon the first day of illness the aid for incapacity at the rate of social insurance, borne equally by the employer and the worker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The occupations involve a higher complexity then two decades ago. The fact that the occupations in the present needs more qualifications, abilities, skill, ingenuity, etc., emphasizes the importance of education and training to help workers cope with this challenge, namely, the change of tasks composition of the occupations. In generally, there is a strong bond between the increasing demand for high levels of education (training and skills) and the supply of technical and organizational innovation. The article includes comments regarding employment structure by level of education and occupational groups; the dynamic of structure of employees from research-development activity and the research development expenditure on performance sectors. At the end of the article there is presented an analysis of the relationship between types of research and development expenditure and composition of research and development workforce in 2005 and 2011. The study presented below has in view the Romanian case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Romania's integration, like any other member country of the European Union, implies the fulfillment of economic and political conditions. If the political criteria are not considered to be a major problem, economic criteria are still met, even if there is some progress in economic reforms. Compared to the some EU countries, there are still large differences in income per capita, high inflation rates (in fact the biggest). We could add the growth of the poorest stratum of population, social cohesion rather precarious, unstable financial system, declining social indicators and some weak government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a jovial and partly subjective path of the Romanian political atmosphere in the early decades of the twentieth century. Wit, mockery, incisiveness, hard words have a history strongly rooted in the customary clothing of the Romanian political levels, so that the current political circus has nothing surprising. Maybe that Romanians are conservative in this regard. Prominent figures of the political life in Romania develop around them, not just landmarks of their ideology, but they also leave transparent here and there the lacey and savory props of the backstage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze, starting from the case of Romania, the degree to which public administration reform contributes to the reduction of corruption. The research focuses also on mass media, which plays a significant positive influence on the reduction of corruption, while the behaviour of the central-level political class does not encourage the reduction of corruption. The reforming process of the central and local public administration Romania is analyzed with regard to the civil service reform, the decentralization process and fight against corruption in the public administration. A special attention is given to the studies related to the measuring of corruption and its impact on economy as a whole or as activity sectors in particular. Nevertheless, the analysis shows that the intensification of the reform process at civil service level leads to the reduction of the level of corruption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper discusses economic threats, from the crisis perspective and financial loans which indebted the population, as well as from the wage cuts points of view. Analyzing IMD reports, we emphasis the vulnerability of each state in accordance with foreign capital inflows. Another issue is represented by international terrorist networks that have access to modern technology and can benefit from bank transfers and rapid means of communication, infrastructure and support provided by ethnic and religious extremist organizations, by the support of the cross-border organized crime or by the support of corrupted regimes, all of which constitute risks and threats to national security of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]