Future scenarios for the development of the European labour force

Anna Ruzik-Sierdzinska

No 1, CASE Network E-briefs from CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: The future size and quality of the European labour force are important production factors for future economic growth in the region. The performance of many systems such as social security and health depends on the population of future potential tax payers. Older workers are an important and increasing share of the employment in Europe. Due to lower fertility and longer life expectancy, today, a larger than ever share of the population is over 50. Eurostat projections show that the share of people between the ages of 50 and 74 in the population aged 20-74 will increase in the EU27 countries from the current 40 per cent to 47 per cent in 2050. However, countries differ in terms of elderly activity. Existing studies show that this is related to various factors, including labour market institutions. As demographic ageing is expected to continue in the future, it is important to know more about these factors in order to recommend policies that could be efficient for the development of future labour markets and the economy as a whole.

Keywords: Labor market; social policy and social services; Europe; Eastern Europe; Caucasus and Central Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 Pages
Date: 2014-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age and nep-cwa
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://case-research.eu/sites/default/files/publi ... 4%20Anna%20Ruzik.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sec:ebrief:0114

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CASE Network E-briefs from CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Marta Kowerko ().