JE STÁRNUTÍ POPULACE TRAGÉDIí?

• Authors: Loužek Marek

Title variants

EN

Is popuation aging a tragedy?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Aging should be viewed as a natural part of the life course and population aging as a transition not a crisis. First part examines population aging causes. Second part draws attention to uncertainty of the demographic projections. Third part analyses dependency ratio in international perspective. Forth part is concerned with health care spending. Fifth part outlines the public policy reactions. Sixth part deals with pension reform. Seventh part asks a question whether population aging is burden or blessing. According to the paper, older people are active, productive and will continue to play a valuable role in the future.

Keywords

EN

DEPENDENCY RATIO; HEALTH COST; OLDER PEOPLE ACTIVITY; PENSION REFORM; POPULATION AGING

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 565-581
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Loužek Marek

• Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Fakulta národohospodářská, nám. W. Churchilla 4, 130 00 Praha, Czech Republic

• M. Louzek, Ekonomicky ustav SAV, Sancova 56, 811 05 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA052812