SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe

This article examines the Office of the National Ombudsman as a possible channel for the exercise of citizen’s participation in democratic life in Bulgaria. Evidence in this direction is derived from the legally established possibilities and...

This review article looks at Attila Àgh’s Awaking Europe in the triple global crisis, published in 2021. Àgh cites the triple crisis facing Europe – the socioeconomic crisis, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 crisis – to which Christophe...

The purpose of this article is to provide an evaluation of the progress made in Albania to achieve gender balance in two main areas – political decision-making and the labour market – in terms of the degree of alignment with the requirements of...

This study examines poverty through the lens of a set of approaches mostly used by economists that identifies poverty in terms of a monetary indicator and which derives an ‘objective’ poverty line. All indicators of poverty, regardless of...

Tens of thousands of Romanian migrants work in the German construction sector. Their work is often characterised by unpaid wages, long working days and the withholding of sick or holiday pay. The risky and exploitative nature of the conditions under...

This article is a report of the Civil Society Forum organised by the European Economic and Social Committee and held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2023. The conference took place on the basis of three panels held on implementation of the green...

The workings of Romanian migration networks across western Europe are well documented. Yet, transnational relations have rarely been examined outside of these networks, namely in their potential for value extraction in broader accumulation...