The transition's population crisis: An econometric investigation of nuptiality, fertility and mortality in severely distressed economies

Autor: Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Renato Paniccià
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: MOCT-MOST Economic Policy in Transitional Economies. 6:95-129
ISSN: 1573-7063
1120-7388
DOI: 10.1007/bf02430940
Popis: In most of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (hereafter referred to in brief as `Eastern Europe) the economic and political reforms of the last six years have been accompanied by an unprecedented fall in output a rapid impoverishment of large sections of society increasing uncertainty about the future and an exceptional population crisis....Neither fashionable explanations nor major demographic and household behaviour models seem to be able to explain the transition population crisis of Eastern Europe....This paper aims at debunking the traditional approach and at testing the hypothesis that the current transition population crisis is the result of growing economic instability social stress unfavourable expectations about the future and inadequate policy action. If this hypothesis is verified the most suitable solution to the current mortality and fertility crisis of Eastern Europe would require not only stronger measures in the field of health and family policy but also more aggressive initiatives to support employment minimum wages and social transfers enhance tax collection and control inflation. (EXCERPT)
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