In their recent paper, Boldrin and Montes (2005) analyzed the “return on human capital investment” theory and showed that if borrowing for education is not possible, then a combined public education and pension system that uses lump-sum revenue from taxes and income transfers can replicate...

The long-term sustainability of the public finance in the context of population ageing is becoming a hot topic in most of the European countries including the Czech Republic. Moreover the Czech population will be one of the oldest in the world according to the forecasts of different institutions...

Since the end of GDR, population in the East German Laender has decreased by 2.1 million people or 13.7 percent. One reason for this decline is the ongoing net-migration from East Germany, especially in the younger-age cohorts, another one is a defi cit in births due to changes in attidudes and...

In their recent paper, Boldrin and Montes (2005) analyze the “return on human capital investment” theory and show that if borrowing for education is not possible, then a combined public education and pension system that uses lump sum taxes and transfers can replicate the first-best...

The paper considers the initial demographic situation of Siberia in the latest decade as well as the negative trends of prolonged character. Assuming an innovation scenario of the economic development in Siberia, the author describes a future demographic situation applying estimations of size...

The main object of this paper is to explain the significance of the key factors which determined the labour force of the Czech population in the period 1993 - 2002. These key factors are the age structure irregularities and the changes in the labour force participation rates by age. The first...

The professional life of the individual in society should become a major goal of the employment policies and strategies, a goal considered science and art. Starting from the Europe`s demographic paradox, it is concluded the need to use at full capacity the human resources of the EU27, by...

The implementation of a new system of financing of social services establishes the conditions for the finding of the optimal form of the securing of human needs in an unfavorable social situation, which should contribute to the increasing of the effectiveness of the spent funds. The goal of this...

One of the major problems of contemporary Poland is its increasingly difficult and complicated demographic situation. This makes the identification of demographic trends of the recent years an important research task. The article presents an assessment of Poland's demographic situation after...