Manpower Constraints and the Use of Pensioners in the Soviet Economy

David E. Powell

Chapter 9 in Employment Policies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1987, pp 196-215 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The population of the Soviet Union, like that of other advanced industrial societies, has been growing older. The number of persons of pension age (55 and above for women, 60 and above for men) increases with each passing year, and today they constitute a significant proportion of the country’s total population. On the eve of World War II, only 8.9 per cent of the men and women living in the USSR were of pension age. By 1959, this figure had risen to 12.7 per cent by 1970 to 15 per cent and by 1979 to 15.5 per cent.1 As of 1 January 1984, some 37.2 million Soviet citizens were receiving old-age pensions, an astonishing seven-fold increase from the 1961 number of 5.4 million.2

Keywords: Labour Force; Work Force; Labour Resource; Pension Benefit; Central Intelligence Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08756-3_9

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