We analyse the adjustment of public education spending in response to rapidly decreasing student cohorts in East Germany where birth rates collapsed after German reunification. Previous results from the literature based on data from more stable demographic periods suggest that public resources...

This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force in East and West Germany into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age structure of the population. The second effect is the...

Die vorliegende Online-Publikation fasst unter dem Titel "Ländliche Räume im demographischen Wandel" die Fachtagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie (DGD) und des Bundesinstituts für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung von 2008 zusammen. Die...

We analyse the adjustment of public education spending in response to rapidly decreasing student cohorts in East Germany where birth rates collapsed after German reunification. Previous results from the literature based on data from more stable demographic periods suggest that public resources...