Since their origins in seventeenth-century Sweden, population registers have been kept at local level, and computerization has now made it possible to establish national registers in most of the 30 European countries analysed in this article. As a result of these registers, the production of...

This paper draws attention to the internal consistency of the demographic statistics frequently used in applied work, population stocks and flows of births, deaths and net migration. We illustrate some inconsistencies found in these statistics provided by the Spanish central statistical office,...

The paper discusses the consequences for the functioning of different pension systems of various types of socioeconomic changes, mainly demographic developments, variations in productivity growth and changes in real interest rates. Two of the pension systems have exogenous and four have...

This paper draws attention to the internal consistency of the demographic statistics frequently used in applied work, population stocks and flows of births, deaths and net migration. We illustrate some inconsistencies found in these statistics provided by the Spanish central statistical office,...

In this paper we describe the Bulgarian statistical system that provides unique research possibilities for demographic analyses. In particular, we review the methodology, structure and informational flows for population registration and the registration of vital events in Bulgaria. In addition,...

Der demographische Wandel in Deutschland führt zu einer Schrumpfung des Erwerbspersonenpotenzials und damit zu einer Verknappung von Fachkräften. Eine Möglichkeit, dieser Verknappung zu begegnen, liegt in der Attrahierung geeigneter Fachkräfte aus dem Ausland. Die ökonomische Theorie...

In seinem Kommentar diskutiert Stefan Fuchs, Institut für Demografie, Allgemeinwohl und Familie (IDAF) e.V., Sankt Augustin, die Programmatik der »nachhaltigen Familienpolitik« und den Paradigmenwechsel zum Leitbild vollzeitiger oder zumindest »vollzeitnaher« Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern....