All publications: Romania
Background paper prepared by the International Labour Office
Fair employment for social justice
Joint ILO - EU report
Mapping enterprise formalization measures in tourism in the European Union
Tourism plays a crucial role in economic growth and employment generation in European countries. However, informality remains a significant challenge in the sector contributing to deficits in decent work and sustainability and undermines tax...
Report
Workers’ representatives in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Filling a gap in labour rights protection or trade union...
World Social Protection Report 2020–22: Regional Companion Report for Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22.
ILO Working paper 32
Digital Work in Eastern Europe: Overview of Trends, Outcomes, and Policy Responses
This paper presents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe over the period 1999-2019. It presents the profiles of digital workers, their working conditions and discusses how these are shaped by the business models of...
Start.COOP - a Step-by-step tool to start up a cooperative - Training Guide
Start.COOP is a low-cost, easy to use tool for those interested in starting and launching a cooperative in a participatory manner. It draws on technical content from existing materials in different ILO cooperative training tools. It also uses a...
Social dialogue and the Future of Work
Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work
Reversing Pension Privatizations. Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America
From 1981 to 2014, thirty countries privatized fully or partially their public mandatory pensions; as of 2018, eighteen countries have reversed the privatization.
Extension of Social Security - Working Paper - ESS 72
Second-pillar pension re-reforms in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Romania, and Slovakia. Benefit payouts amidst continuing...
Think.COOP - an orientation on the cooperative business model
Think.COOP is a low-cost, easy to use tool for those interested in establishing or joining a cooperative. It draws on technical content from existing materials from different ILO cooperative training tools on the basics of cooperatives. It also uses...
Social Protection Floors. Volume 3. Governance and Financing
The volumes on “Social Protection Floors” present best practices and experiences from countries that are useful for South-South learning, for practitioners and to provide the basis for more informed policy-making.
Social Protection Floors. Volume 2. Innovations to Extend Coverage
The volumes on “Social Protection Floors” present best practices and experiences from countries that are useful for South-South learning, for practitioners and to provide the basis for more informed policy-making.
Social Protection for Children
Child Benefits in Central and Eastern Europe - A comparative review
The purpose of this report is to review the social protection policy for children in Central and Eastern European countries. In particular, the analysis of this report focuses on cash child benefits (family allowances) and their impact on child...
The ILO at Work in Central and Eastern Europe 2009-2014
This publication is a collection of good practices and outputs of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) activities in Central and Eastern Europe.
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 51
The largest drop in income inequality in the European Union during the Great Recession: Romania’s puzzling case
The impact of legislative reforms on industrial relations in Romania
This paper outlines the major changes made in 2011 in Romania to the legal and institutional frameworks relating to the workers' and employers' organizations and their activities, including collective bargaining.
Working Paper No. 106 - Rural Development Strategies as a Path to Decent Work and Reducing Urban Informal Employment: The Case of South...
Working Paper No. 105 - Decent Work Policy options for the Romanian Economy
The Impact of the Crisis on Wages in South-East Europe
What has been the wage impact of the financial and economic crisis in South-East Europe? What structural weaknesses in wage institutions have been highlighted by the crisis? And what are the policy issues that actors in the region – governments,...
Book
Pension reform in Central and Eastern Europe: in times of crisis, austerity and beyond
The paper reviews the performance of the current pension system during the period of the global economic crisis, and through comparative analysis provides possible solutions to the challenges which these countries are facing.