Employment and Poverty in Bulgarian Rural Areas
Employment and Poverty in Bulgarian Rural Areas

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of employment and poverty in Bulgarian rural areas. The emphases of the discussion are on the slow pace of creation of new employment there, the lack of stable and long-lasting employment in villages and small towns, which results in lower employment rates and hence, greater risk of poverty. Moreover, there has been a significant decrease of the employment rate among young people aged up to 24 years and of elderly people aged 60 and over. The authors discuss how this negative trend, designated as ‘stable’ by the official statistics, could be overcome. The first part of the article is focused on the concepts used in poverty research and the methodology of the study; the second part analyses specific indicators of the employment situation in rural regions. In the last part of the article, the authors present generalized characteristics of poverty in Bulgarian rural areas.

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