Labour markets in an ageing Europe / edited by Paul Johnson and Klaus F. Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Paul (Paul A.), editor.

Zimmermann, Klaus F., editor.

Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Age and employment--Europe--Congresses.

Age and employment.

Middle-aged persons--Employment--Europe--Congresses.

Middle-aged persons.

Older people--Employment--Europe--Congresses.

Older people.

Youth--Employment--Europe--Congresses.

Youth.

Labor market--Europe--Congresses.

Labor market.

Employment forecasting--Europe--Congresses.

Employment forecasting.

Population forecasting--Europe--Congresses.

Population forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The population of the European Community will fall by 2% by the year 2025. Between 1960 and 1990, it grew by 17%. This contrast reflects the dramatic growth of the population of pensioners in the total population, and also the rapid ageing of the Community's working population. In this volume, based on a CEPR conference held in Munich in April 1992, leading economists in the field assess demographic and labour market developments in Western and Eastern Europe. They compare them with developments in the USA and Japan, and assess the effects of ageing on European productivity, earnings and human capital formation. Policies to improve the quantity and quality of the labour force are considered, including incentives for female labour participation, selective immigration policies, 'pronatalist' family policies, and improved human capital formation.

Contents:

1. Ageing and the European labour market: public policy issues / Paul Johnson and Klaus F. Zimmermann

2. Ageing and European economic demography / Paul Johnson

3. Ageing and employment trends: a comparative analysis for OECD countries / Martin Rein and Klaus Jacobs

4. Ageing and the labour market in Poland and Eastern Europe / Stanislawa Golinowska

5. The implications of cohort size for human capital investment / Christopher J. Flinn

6. Does an ageing labour force call for large adjustments in training or wage policies? / Didier Blanchet

7. On ageing and earnings / N. Anders Klevmarken

8. Age, wages and education in The Netherlands / Joop Hartog, Hessel Oosterbeek and Coen Teulings

9. Ageing and unemployment / Christoph M. Schmidt

10. Ageing, migration and labour mobility / Rainer Winkelmann and Klaus F. Zimmermann.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-511-98331-X

OCLC:

935277246