Employment and Social Cohesion

Scarlat, Valentin (2009): Employment and Social Cohesion.

Abstract

The EU is striving to create growth and jobs through a multilateral approach. In particular, measures improving the competitiveness of our economies, stimulating innovation and productivity and strengthening the marginal incentives to work are considered. At the same time, EU energy policies are a sustainable way of creating jobs and enhancing growth and are hence a part of the solution to the current economic crisis. However, is to be stressed, the longer-term goal remains the building of Europe’s future prosperity on the basis of a knowledge (cognition) economy.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: knowledge based society; social cohesion; employment; quality of life, European Social Fund (ESF)
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination

References

K. Aiginger, A. Guger, The ability to adapt: Why It Differs between the Scandinavian and Continental European Models, Intereconomics, January/February 2006.

M. Jepsen, A.S. Pascual, The European Social Model: an exercise in deconstruction, 2005.

N. Lambru, I. Mărginean (coord.), Public-Private Partnership in Providing Social services, Publishing Houses Day, Bucharest, 2004.

C. B. Păun, L. L. Albu etc., The European Social Model - implications for Romania, The European Institute of Romania, 2006

A. Vass, Public-Private Partnership versus State aid: a possible case confrontational approach in the European Institute of National Economy, 2007.

M. Voicu, Social Development and Social Legitimacy, in “Social development: some theoretical elements" in Zamfir C., L. Walters (coord.), "A new challenge: social development," Collegium, Polirom, 2006

The European Council Presidency Conclusions in Nice, December 2000, Annex 1, the European Social Agenda.