Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v1i2.598
Demographic Structure and Retirement System
Dušan Milinković
; Studijski centar socijalnog rada, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
Demographic processes and population characteristics greatly influence the entire development of a country. The retirement system, being one of the basic systems of social security, is directly based on the age and sex structure of the population. Among the basic demographic processes, still insufficiently recognized, is the ageing of the population. This process is typical of the developed countries of the world and Croatia has got very close to them. It is particularly clear when some basic demographic indexes of Croatia are compared with OECD countries. On the other hand, the comparison of the number and structure of pensioners and the coefficients of burdening the social product by paying pensions, have shown significant differences between Croatia and the developed countries. It leads to the need of some radical changes in the retirement security system. Its change is never a simple one, and in the war conditions and a low level of life standard it is even more difficult. We can therefore conclude that it is necessary to implement such transitional solutions that will lessen the existing difficulties and possible injustices of the generation that is about to retire.
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29700
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Publication date:
1.2.1994.
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