Lieferengpässe im Zuge der Covid-19-Pandemie und der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine haben dazu beigetragen, dass die Inflationsraten wieder angestiegen sind. Wir argumentieren, dass sich dadurch sechs strukturelle Faktoren verstärkt haben, warum die Inflation und auch höhere Zinsen nicht...

Die Europawahl 2024 hat in Deutschland zu einer Zweiteilung der politischen Landkarte geführt. Während in den westlichen Bundesländern überwiegend die Union zur stärksten Partei gekürt wird, dominiert im Osten die AfD. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht, welche regionalen Faktoren im...

The youth population bulge is often mentioned in discussions of youth unemployment and unrest in developing countries, most recently in explaining the “Arab Spring.” But the youth share of the population has fallen rapidly in recent decades in most countries, and is projected to continue to...

The demand for institutional long-term care is likely to remain high in OECD countries, because of longer life expectancy and falling cohabitation rates of the elderly with family members. As shortages of qualified nurses put a cap on the supply of beds at nursing homes, excess demand builds....

The concept of the "silver economy" is one of the complex response trials to the challenges of ageing societies. Its key objective is to bring goods and services to meet the needs of older people through gerontechnology. Article approximates relationships between technology and the ageing of the...

Contemporary demographic processes forcing increasing attention to the problems of relationships and dependencies between the different age groups. The ageing of the population in each society leads to changes in the contacts between young people, adults and the elderly. It is reasonable to...

Because of no ethnographical survey, ecological and ethnographical studies are available in an underdeveloped area of demographic research in Pakistan. Keeping this view in mind, this paper evaluates the fertility profile of the Arians, an indigenous community in Pakistan. A random sample of 510...

This insight will serve to highlight the trend experienced by the Romanian population, since 1990 until present, focusing on two main dimensions, one that takes into account the demographic aspects and the other that consider the economic side. In first part, the article talks about the problem...