Revista Romana de Economie (Jun 2008)

THE ELDERLY POPULATION ON THE LABOUR MARKET

  • Ion GHIZDEANU

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 1
pp. 155 – 165

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The study presents the main characteristics for Romania regarding the labour market participation of the population in the context of the high employment of the aged population in the agriculture, linked to the lake of pension or any other form of social protection for the largest part of this social group. Through the analysis that this study is making, it emphasises the legislative problems and of statistical methodology of the Romanian environment by comparison to the European standards regarding the standard retirement age, which is different in the Romanian case from women (60) to men (65), while the European standards has an undifferentiated system for men and women, with an age of 65+.

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