Europe's demographic problem (an ageing population) is well-known and has been the object of a number of research projects in the EU. As an example of the scale of the problem, the percentage of persons 55 or older in the overall population of the EU was 30% in 2010, and is expected to rise to...

Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...

Transformationsprozesse bringen Probleme wie Arbeitslosigkeit und Veränderungen in der Demografie mit sich. Dies hat sich sehr stark in den letzten fünfundzwanzig Jahren in Ostdeutschland gezeigt. In Bundesländern wie Thüringen und Sachsen zeigen sich die Probleme und Widersprüche der...