Bulgaria: Recent Developments in Employment and Social Affairs

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This paper has been prepared by Policy Department A of DG Internal Policies of the European Parliament at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. It presents recent developments and challenges related to employment and unemployment; income inequality and poverty in Bulgaria, comparing them to the trends for the European Union.

The paper also provides an overview and analysis of the most impactful policies designed and implemented to address the above, in view of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Bulgarian Presidency Priorities.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, October 2017: Bulgaria: Recent Developments in Employment and Social Affairs http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/607358/IPOL_IDA(2017)607358_EN.pdf

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