Claudia Petrescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4133566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Petrescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrescu |
| SIGNATURE | PETRESCU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Romanian Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2528-675X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Patterns of School‐to‐Work‐Transition Societies With High Rates of Neets
INTRODUCTION: In the context of increasing interest across Europe with youth not in employment education or training (NEET), the article explores and depicts the policy measures for stimulating school-to-work transition (SWT) and the work integration of youth in four EU countries. METHODS: We use a database of NEET-related policies adopted between 1990 and 2022 in seven EU countries. We assess existing regulations in Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, an…
Conceiving of and politically responding to Neets in Europe
Young people Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) have become a target population of policymaking in Europe. After one decade of political attention and corresponding policy action, we consider it a good time to take stock of the literature that has dealt with young people who are classified as NEET and the policies adopted in response to the risk of leaving this group of vulnerable individuals behind. To this end, we carry out a syst…
Young People's Perceptions of Youth Unemployment
Youth unemployment has been an issue in European countries for many years. However, the attention paid to it by policymakers has varied over time, and there are high cross-country variations in both the size of the phenomenon, representations of it, and policy interventions. This study adds an intra-country component to the country-comparative dimension and assesses the factors affecting how young adults perceive youth unemployment. From a theore…
Youth and Sustainability of Rural Areas
This special issue contains four articles, which were prepared within COST Action CA18213 Rural NEET Youth Network: modeling the risks underlying rural NEETs social exclusion.This special issue approaches and discusses about young people living in rural areas, particularly youth neither in employment nor in education or training (NEETs), and their role in contributing to sustainability from different perspectives, such as economic, social, and en…
Using Evidence in Policies Addressing Rural Neets
Using the policy narrative framework, this article examines the pathways through which the development of policies (related to rural/small towns young NEETs in various EU countries) are based on evidence. To do this, we consider the Youth Guarantee (YG), an EU program (2014-2020) developed in several member countries with the aim of socioprofessional inclusion of NEETs (young people aged 15-24 that are not in employment, education, or training). …
Economic Predictors of Differences in Interview Faking Between Countries
Many companies recruit employees from different parts of the globe, and faking behavior by potential employees is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It seems that applicants from some countries are more prone to faking compared to others, but the reasons for these differences are largely unexplored. This study relates country‐level economic variables to faking behavior in hiring processes. In a cross‐national study across 20 countries, participants ( N = 3…
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania
Background: The importance of using evidence to inform the policymaking process has been well established in the literature and practice. In Western countries evidence-based policy (EBP) is already accepted and implemented in many policy areas, including disability policy. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the interest in EBP (evidence-based policy) is new and limited, hampered in many aspects by the regional specificity of the public administr…
Introduction
Implementation of the Youth Guarantee Programme in Romania
In 2014, European countries began implementing the Youth Guarantee Programme (YGP), one of the European Commission’s most important initiatives designed to combat the issue of youth unemployment. This led to a decrease in the number of young NEETs over the subsequent 6 years. Based on data concerning the extent and size of the NEETs phenomenon at the European level, the number of NEETs who benefit from various measures, and data regarding program…
Soft Skills and Psychological Well-being
Soft skills retain a certain importance in fully understanding the NEET phenomenon: however, only few researchers have focused on them specifically. The aim of this work is two-fold: a) to detect the differences in terms of soft skills and psychological well-being between urban and rural NEETs; and b) to evaluate which of the soft skills analysed may be predictors of psychological well-being. A sample of young 6998 18−34 years old representative …
Introduction
The contribution of social economy organizations to the economic, social and environmental development is increasingly recognized at international level.A wealth of research is emerging constantly in this field.This special issue of Quality of Life Journal is dedicated to social and solidarity economy and its challenges and perspectives for sustainable development.The goal of this special issue is to approach and discuss the situation of social a…
Perceptions towards the quality of public services in Romania. Poor outcomes of public administration reforms
Public services represent an important dimension of quality of society, as they create the contextual conditions for people to further their quality of life. Romanian public administration reform has brought about a constant institutional transformation, which has influenced both the specific features and the quality of the services. This article aims to analyse trends regarding the perceived quality of public services in Romania, in European com…
Exploring the role of social enterprises within the Romanian welfare system
Social enterprises are embedded in the local context, their organizational characteristics and operational strategies being influenced by the institutional settings, political culture and historical traditions and events. Similar to other European countries, Romania has included the modernization of the welfare systems in the development agenda of the last decade. One of the areas of interest was to better understand and promote the dynamics of t…
Bottom-up social enterprises in Romania. Case study – Retirees’ Mutual Aid Association
The purpose of this article is to present and analyze the organizational profile and distinctive development pattern of a successful bottom-up social enterprise in Romania, namely, the Retirees’ Mutual Aid Association (RMAA). Romania has recently rediscovered the world of social economy which brings together various organizations, from associations and foundations to cooperatives and commons, sharing a common interest in developing entrepreneuria…
Surviving the crisis
The aim of this article is to provide structured information on the profile, trends, and challenges of worker cooperatives in Romania. Its main purpose is to help refine the current explanatory framework for worker cooperatives in post-communist countries in the light of empirical evidence drawn from research conducted in Romania. Building on the literature and empirical research, it identifies and highlights some of the present issues and challe…
Expectations Versus Reality in a University–Community Partnership
To add to the growing body of literature on university–community engagement, this case study describes a 2-year partnership between a University and 11 nonprofit organizations that was formed as part of a grant funded Nonprofit Capacity Building Program. The article describes and analyzes a significant challenge that emerged between the parties involved in this particular relationship, respectively, the clear disconnect between the expectations o…
Do they all perform alike? An examination of perceived performance, citizen satisfaction and trust with US federal agencies
What drives citizen satisfaction and trust with US federal government agencies? Are these determinants constant across agencies, or do they differ? In this article, we examine elements of citizen perceived performance as determinants of satisfaction and trust in federal agencies using a multi-year, cross-sectional, multi-agency sample of respondents. Focusing on six high-incidence federal agencies experienced by a large cross-section of American …
Do they all perform alike? An examination of perceived performance, citizen satisfaction and trust with US federal agencies
What drives citizen satisfaction and trust with US federal government agencies? Are these determinants constant across agencies, or do they differ? In this article, we examine elements of citizen perceived performance as determinants of satisfaction and trust in federal agencies using a multi-year, cross-sectional, multi-agency sample of respondents. Focusing on six high-incidence federal agencies experienced by a large cross-section of American …
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania
Background: The importance of using evidence to inform the policymaking process has been well established in the literature and practice. In Western countries evidence-based policy (EBP) is already accepted and implemented in many policy areas, including disability policy. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the interest in EBP (evidence-based policy) is new and limited, hampered in many aspects by the regional specificity of the public administr…
Expectations Versus Reality in a University–Community Partnership
To add to the growing body of literature on university–community engagement, this case study describes a 2-year partnership between a University and 11 nonprofit organizations that was formed as part of a grant funded Nonprofit Capacity Building Program. The article describes and analyzes a significant challenge that emerged between the parties involved in this particular relationship, respectively, the clear disconnect between the expectations o…
Do they all perform alike? An examination of perceived performance, citizen satisfaction and trust with US federal agencies
What drives citizen satisfaction and trust with US federal government agencies? Are these determinants constant across agencies, or do they differ? In this article, we examine elements of citizen perceived performance as determinants of satisfaction and trust in federal agencies using a multi-year, cross-sectional, multi-agency sample of respondents. Focusing on six high-incidence federal agencies experienced by a large cross-section of American …
Surviving the crisis
The aim of this article is to provide structured information on the profile, trends, and challenges of worker cooperatives in Romania. Its main purpose is to help refine the current explanatory framework for worker cooperatives in post-communist countries in the light of empirical evidence drawn from research conducted in Romania. Building on the literature and empirical research, it identifies and highlights some of the present issues and challe…
Expectations Versus Reality in a University–Community Partnership
To add to the growing body of literature on university–community engagement, this case study describes a 2-year partnership between a University and 11 nonprofit organizations that was formed as part of a grant funded Nonprofit Capacity Building Program. The article describes and analyzes a significant challenge that emerged between the parties involved in this particular relationship, respectively, the clear disconnect between the expectations o…
Bottom-up social enterprises in Romania. Case study – Retirees’ Mutual Aid Association
The purpose of this article is to present and analyze the organizational profile and distinctive development pattern of a successful bottom-up social enterprise in Romania, namely, the Retirees’ Mutual Aid Association (RMAA). Romania has recently rediscovered the world of social economy which brings together various organizations, from associations and foundations to cooperatives and commons, sharing a common interest in developing entrepreneuria…
Introduction
The contribution of social economy organizations to the economic, social and environmental development is increasingly recognized at international level.A wealth of research is emerging constantly in this field.This special issue of Quality of Life Journal is dedicated to social and solidarity economy and its challenges and perspectives for sustainable development.The goal of this special issue is to approach and discuss the situation of social a…
Perceptions towards the quality of public services in Romania. Poor outcomes of public administration reforms
Public services represent an important dimension of quality of society, as they create the contextual conditions for people to further their quality of life. Romanian public administration reform has brought about a constant institutional transformation, which has influenced both the specific features and the quality of the services. This article aims to analyse trends regarding the perceived quality of public services in Romania, in European com…
Exploring the role of social enterprises within the Romanian welfare system
Social enterprises are embedded in the local context, their organizational characteristics and operational strategies being influenced by the institutional settings, political culture and historical traditions and events. Similar to other European countries, Romania has included the modernization of the welfare systems in the development agenda of the last decade. One of the areas of interest was to better understand and promote the dynamics of t…
Economic Predictors of Differences in Interview Faking Between Countries
Many companies recruit employees from different parts of the globe, and faking behavior by potential employees is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It seems that applicants from some countries are more prone to faking compared to others, but the reasons for these differences are largely unexplored. This study relates country‐level economic variables to faking behavior in hiring processes. In a cross‐national study across 20 countries, participants ( N = 3…
Using evidence in shaping disability policy in Romania
Background: The importance of using evidence to inform the policymaking process has been well established in the literature and practice. In Western countries evidence-based policy (EBP) is already accepted and implemented in many policy areas, including disability policy. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the interest in EBP (evidence-based policy) is new and limited, hampered in many aspects by the regional specificity of the public administr…
Introduction
Implementation of the Youth Guarantee Programme in Romania
In 2014, European countries began implementing the Youth Guarantee Programme (YGP), one of the European Commission’s most important initiatives designed to combat the issue of youth unemployment. This led to a decrease in the number of young NEETs over the subsequent 6 years. Based on data concerning the extent and size of the NEETs phenomenon at the European level, the number of NEETs who benefit from various measures, and data regarding program…
Soft Skills and Psychological Well-being
Soft skills retain a certain importance in fully understanding the NEET phenomenon: however, only few researchers have focused on them specifically. The aim of this work is two-fold: a) to detect the differences in terms of soft skills and psychological well-being between urban and rural NEETs; and b) to evaluate which of the soft skills analysed may be predictors of psychological well-being. A sample of young 6998 18−34 years old representative …
Using Evidence in Policies Addressing Rural Neets
Using the policy narrative framework, this article examines the pathways through which the development of policies (related to rural/small towns young NEETs in various EU countries) are based on evidence. To do this, we consider the Youth Guarantee (YG), an EU program (2014-2020) developed in several member countries with the aim of socioprofessional inclusion of NEETs (young people aged 15-24 that are not in employment, education, or training). …
Young People's Perceptions of Youth Unemployment
Youth unemployment has been an issue in European countries for many years. However, the attention paid to it by policymakers has varied over time, and there are high cross-country variations in both the size of the phenomenon, representations of it, and policy interventions. This study adds an intra-country component to the country-comparative dimension and assesses the factors affecting how young adults perceive youth unemployment. From a theore…
Youth and Sustainability of Rural Areas
This special issue contains four articles, which were prepared within COST Action CA18213 Rural NEET Youth Network: modeling the risks underlying rural NEETs social exclusion.This special issue approaches and discusses about young people living in rural areas, particularly youth neither in employment nor in education or training (NEETs), and their role in contributing to sustainability from different perspectives, such as economic, social, and en…
Conceiving of and politically responding to Neets in Europe
Young people Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) have become a target population of policymaking in Europe. After one decade of political attention and corresponding policy action, we consider it a good time to take stock of the literature that has dealt with young people who are classified as NEET and the policies adopted in response to the risk of leaving this group of vulnerable individuals behind. To this end, we carry out a syst…
Patterns of School‐to‐Work‐Transition Societies With High Rates of Neets
INTRODUCTION: In the context of increasing interest across Europe with youth not in employment education or training (NEET), the article explores and depicts the policy measures for stimulating school-to-work transition (SWT) and the work integration of youth in four EU countries. METHODS: We use a database of NEET-related policies adopted between 1990 and 2022 in seven EU countries. We assess existing regulations in Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, an…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works)