Marius Constantin

Assistant Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Towards Sustainable Development in the European Labour Market by Suppressing Corruption


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Simona Roxana Pătărlăgeanu, Marius Constantin, Mihai Dinu
Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, 2020, pp. 548-556


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Pătărlăgeanu, S. R., Constantin, M., & Dinu, M. (2020). Towards Sustainable Development in the European Labour Market by Suppressing Corruption. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences (pp. 548–556). https://doi.org/10.2478/9788395815072-055


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Pătărlăgeanu, Simona Roxana, Marius Constantin, and Mihai Dinu. “Towards Sustainable Development in the European Labour Market by Suppressing Corruption.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, 548–556, 2020.


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Pătărlăgeanu, Simona Roxana, et al. “Towards Sustainable Development in the European Labour Market by Suppressing Corruption.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, 2020, pp. 548–56, doi:10.2478/9788395815072-055.


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@inproceedings{simona2020a,
  title = {Towards Sustainable Development in the European Labour Market by Suppressing Corruption},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences},
  pages = {548-556},
  doi = {10.2478/9788395815072-055},
  author = {Pătărlăgeanu, Simona Roxana and Constantin, Marius and Dinu, Mihai},
  booktitle = {}
}

Abstract

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations includes one specific goal referring to decent work and economic growth, more specifically: the eighth goal. Among others, this goal calls for opportunities for full employment and decent work for everyone, promotion of equal labour rights and eradicating discrimination. Considering the need to pursue this sustainable development goal, the progress made towards this regard can be measured using the following indicator: young people neither in employment nor in education and training. Given that corruption negatively affects schooling years and causes difficulties in the labour market, the main objective of this research paper is to quantify the impact that the corruption perception index has on achieving the eighth sustainable development goal in the European Union, more specifically on the indicator that measures the progress made in this regard: the share of young people aged 15-29 who are not in the education system and who are unemployed out of all the young people aged 15-29. In this study, the previously mentioned indicator represents the dependent variable in the designed econometric model, based on cross-sectional data, while the corruption perception index represents the independent indicator. The main findings of this research include: taking 2019 as the reference year at the level of all the 28 states of the European Union, young women encounter difficulties in finding a job or remaining in the education system due to corruption (57.53%), while young men (18.87%) do not encounter difficulties in this respect as much as women do. In order to combat gender discrimination and to ensure progress towards the eighth sustainable development goal, the European Union should fight corruption by establishing e-government solutions, fostering international cooperation, improving transparency in the fight against corruption and strengthening the civil society engagement in the field of corruption suppression.


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