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    Socio-Economic Situation of Albania Within the Context of Integration with the European Union

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    European Integration of Albania is one of the specific and the most diffi cult process among theWestern Balkan countries. To have a complete picture of this process one should have in mind an overview of trends in the relationship between the Western Balkans and the European Union. The very important role plays also the prospect of membership of these countries for their social, political and economic situation. This article aims to present the socio-economic situation of Albania and the reforms this country should undertake to be prepared for the membership in the EU

    The Problem of Social Protection in Albania

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    The aim of this paper is to analyze the social protection system in Albania during the last two decades. It highlights some of the problems and issues which are closely associated with elements of social security, as a phenomenon that focuses on finding solutions or solving the problems in social security systems in Albania. Of great importance are the changes in the social security legislation in recent years, which led to a new structure of the social insurance market in Albanian society. Also discussed are the types of benefits offered by our social insurance system. Our country occupies a special place in relation to the problems it has encountered with social protection and the social security law.Celem niniejszej pracy jest analiza systemu zabezpieczeń społecznych w Albanii w ciągu ostatniej dekady. Istotne jest, aby wybrać niektóre z problemów i zagadnień, które są ściśle związane z elementami zabezpieczenia społecznego, jako zjawiska, które koncentruje się w kierunku znalezienia rozwiązania poprzez systemów zabezpieczenia społecznego w Albanii. Duże znaczenie miały zmiany w ustawodawstwie dotyczące zabezpieczeń społecznych przez ostatnie lata, które doprowadziły do nowego znaczenia w Albańskim społeczeństwie dla rynku ubezpieczeniowego. Omówione zostaną również rodzaje świadczeń z systemu ubezpieczeń społecznych. Szczególne miejsce zostało poświęcone dla problemów, które napotykał kraj w egzekwowaniu nowych praw ochrony socjalnej i ubezpieczeń społecznych

    Integracja ekonomiczna Bałkanów Zachodnich z Unią Europejską na przykładzie Albanii

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    Praca doktorska poświęcona jest integracji państw Bałkanów Zachodnich (BZ) z Unią Europejską (UE), ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem integracji Albanii. Bałkany Zachodnie to określenie przyjęte przez UE w odniesieniu do siedmiu krajów Europy Południowo-Wschodniej objętych polityką rozszerzenia. Po wejściu Chorwacji do UE kraje te określane są jako „bałkańska szóstka” (ang. Western Balkan Six – WB6). Grupa ta obejmuje obecnie Albanię, Bośnię i Hercegowinę, Czarnogórę, Kosowo, Macedonię Północną i Serbię. W pracy zamiennie używane są te dwa określenia (BZ i WB6). Głównym celem rozprawy jest ocena procesu integracji Albanii z Unią Europejską na tle pozostałych krajów Bałkanów Zachodnich, zidentyfikowanie głównych problemów w tym procesie oraz zbadanie stanu konwergencji Albanii w stosunku do krajów Unii Europejskiej na tle pozostałych krajów WB6. Do realizacji celu służyły: kwerenda literatury i dokumentów UE dotyczących procesu integracji krajów Bałkanów Zachodnich oraz Albanii, Komitetu Integracji Albanii, analiza Syntetycznych Mierników Rozwoju oraz metoda ekonometryczna (do zbadania poziomu konwergencji realnej Bałkanów Zachodnich z UE), model B. Balassy (wyliczono RCA dla oszacowania przewagi komparatywnej). W własnych badaniach pierwotnych wykorzystano kwestionariusz ankiety oraz metodę pogłębionego wywiadu indywidualnego (IDI). Praca składa się ze wstępu, pięciu rozdziałów, zakończenia, aneksu, bibliografii oraz spisów tabel, wykresów i rysunków. Podjęte rozważania mają charakter teoretyczno-empiryczny

    INTERNAL MIGRATION OF LABOR AS A REGULATORY MECHANISM IN THE AREA OF A SINGLE CURRENCY. THE EUROZONE AND ALBANIA

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    The purpose of this paper is to provide the impact of mobility labour market in social and economic aspects. Labor market flexibility is defined in different ways by different authors. Some define flexibility as the speed at which the labor market can act as a regulatory agent in response to an economic shock. Others identify flexible labor market as a mechanism that helps in establishing a stable equilibrium, with a low degree of structural unemployment. Increasing labor market flexibility also occurs through the distribution of the labor force, between employers, countries or different tasks. This can be achieved through the promotion of geographical mobility of labor across regions and across borders. This article makes clear how the geographical mobility of labor is a regulation mechanism in the economy, which helps him adjust to economic shocks

    PRIVATE PENSION SYSTEM IN ALBANIA

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    The role of private pensions in many developed economies has grown significantly in the past two decades. The situation is different for developing economies where private pensions are a new phenomenon and have a very low weight in the sector. Despite the diversity of retirement systems, these countries in many cases are characterized from low education level of the population for this service and not well-defined investment policy from the companies offering this product. The low education level implies that the publicity should be as simple as possible to be understood from considerable population and well–specified policies increase the self-confidence of the interest group. Developing economies in the same time are characterized even from high informal employment rate, influencing directly privet and public pension system. In this situation, new reforms and actions should be made in order to develop and incentivize the pension market. In the same time it is very important the pension model that has to be used, which should be in accordance with the economic, political and social characteristics of the country. The same can be said even for Albania, when it comes to pension system. The pension scheme in Albania consists of two pillars. The first pillar is PAYG funded system, publicly managed and “defined benefits” (DB) where benefits are calculated according to a specific formula based on the number of working-years, wages earned, as well as the contributions paid. The second pillar, as per international definition of it, does not exist in Albania. Instead there is a third pillar, privately managed, voluntary contributed and defined contributions (DC). During the past decade, the first pillar has demonstrated certain problems, like low net replacement rate, high dependency rate and considerable high level of evasion of contributions payment. The third pillar is a new one in Albania and the size and the development of it is very modest, as at the end of 2014, this market accounted for 0.05% of the Gross Domestic Product, or in number of contributors only 8,491. Despite the small number it has been increased, so compared with 2013 the number has been increased with 7.66%. The paper will be focused on the detailed analyze of pension system in Albania, and more concretely in the privet one. The objective is to give a detailed overview of this sector in Albania, with its difficulties and obstacles that are encountered and the risks faced today and in the future
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