Long-Term Labour Force Projections for the 25 EU Member States:A set of data for assessing the economic impact of ageing

Giuseppe Carone

Labor and Demography from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper presents the methodology and results of labour force projections over the long term (until 2050) for each of the 25 EU Member States. These projections were undertaken in order to provide the background technical inputs for the assessment of the potential economic and fiscal impact of an ageing population. The projections presented in this paper show the outcome for the labour force of extrapolating recent trends in labour market behaviour (entry and exit rates from the labour market). These base case projections reflect the working assumption of “no policy change” and are neither forecasts nor predictions in that they are not based on any assessment of more or less likely future changes in working patterns or economic conditions. To summarise the outcome of projections, the baseline scenario indicates that, notwithstanding the projected increase in the participation rates and the reduction in unemployment rates, the pace of labour force and employment growth in the EU25 will be weakly positive over the next 15 years and will turn negative over the period 2018 to 2050. These is mainly the outcome of projected declining trends for the working-age population and a shift in the age structure of the population towards older, less participating groups - a consequence of the baby-boom generation approaching retirement and the succeeding lower-birth-rate cohorts reaching working age.

Keywords: Labour force projections; population projections; cohort method; ageing population; dependency ratios (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 J10 J11 J14 J21 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 180 pages
Date: 2005-12-09
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