Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013

Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas: Social Sciences, Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport. This journal provides students the opportunity to create and/or to improve their abilities to write scientific papers. So each appearance (two appearances per year at which we can add supplements) contains a number of papers written by students, masters and doctoral from the faculties from the country or/and abroad. The journal promotes original studies contributing to the progress of knowledge and it is motivated by the need to address issues of theory and practice in the areas mentioned above

Aspects of national policy convergence. Labor market experiences of employment in some Balkan states. Case study.

EU expansion has mainly reduced the capacity of Balkan states of adjusting their administrative structures and models promoted by the EU standards. The discussions around this theme are founded on traditions, economic, social, cultural, administrative values of the states in the Balkans in relation to those promoted in Western countries and the EU. Our study on the convergence of the public policy considers the description of how various factors and economic, social and political mechanisms act or compete in mitigating the differences or gaps between entities. Therefore the research attempts to highlight some elements of the convergence of national public policies between Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Croatia in the labor market employment.convergence; europeanisation; public policy; labor market employment