POPULATION DYNAMICS IN THE ROMANIAN DANUBE VALLEY. GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE YOUNG POPULATION – LABOUR RELATIONS

Daniela Nancu, Bianca Mitrică (), Mihaela Persu and Irena Mocanu
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Daniela Nancu: Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Bianca Mitrică: Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Mihaela Persu: Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Irena Mocanu: Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2015, vol. 12, issue 2, 157-173

Abstract: The Danube Valley population has experienced a thoroughly negative dynamics in the last two decades. The factors generating this situation were of social-economic nature, given the context of the post-1989 deep political changes in Romania. The population, the rural population in particular, had to cope with problems such as ageing, depleted birth rate and fertility, external migration and even the depopulation of settlements, all these completing the picture of the demographic decline in the region. The negative population dynamics in the period 1992-2011 indicates the onset of a deep crisis in the Danube Valley, just like in many other regions of Romania, the demographic aspects going hand in hand with the economic situation and the political drawbacks. According to the last Population Census (2011), the activity rate and the employment rate in the Danube Valley were lower than the national rates. The territorial distribution of the values characteristic for the labour substitution index suggests the incapacity of almost the entire Danube Valley area to maintain its demographic and productive force.

Keywords: young population; labor; dynamics; Danube Valley (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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