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TRENDS IN CROATIA’S LABOUR RESOURCES FROM 1970—1985
Alica Wertheimer-Baletic
Sažetak
The author describes the basic characteristics of trends in the active population
projections worked out by the Federal Institute for Statistics and the Centre
for Demographic Investigations in Belgrade.
The trends observed in the working contingent and active population of
Croatia's demographic development, i. e. a decreasing birthrate and intensive migration.
Beside demographic factors there are also many socio-economic factors
which cause the rate of the population’s economic activity to decrease.
The following are the basic tendencies in the offer of man-power in Croatia:
the number and proportion of population of active age is increasing: from the
demographic point of view this would lead to an increase in the number of active
population. At the same time there is a tendency of ageing of the working contingent
due to the continual decrease in the number of young people joining the
active population. However, despite the increasing number of inhabitants of working
age and the growing proportion of the work contingent in the total population,
the general rate of activity of the population is decreasing as it also is in most other republics of Yugoslavia. Further, according to the projections, the number
of the active population may be expected to grow slowly till 1982, but to decrease
absolutely after that year. This indicates that numerous economic and social factors
limit the economic activity of the population both within marginal age groups and
within the active age period. This is clearly illustrated by changes in the rate of
activity according to age. Some of these factors are due to socio-economic development
and thus have their social justification, such as, for instance, the decreasing
activity of the population in the younger age groups owing to a growing proportion
of young people continuing schooling, longer schooling periods, reduced activity
of elderly persons because of retirement, etc., — all of which is closely connected
with the transition of the population from agriculture into non-agricultural activities.
However, economic activity is often given up by persons in the age group
of 50—64, i. e. the group in which losses of working ability due to invalidity most
frequently occur in Croatia. This calls for greater efforts at improving general
working conditions and providing better health protection. The fact that a decreasing
number of persons join the active population calls both for a more
rational use of the existing labour reserves within the work contingent itself and
for increasing the rate of economic activity among the population of active age.
This is especially necessary in view of the fact that besides the continuing adverse
trends in the active population a certain proportion of the population must for
some time to come be expected to be lost through external migrations.
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Hrčak ID:
118982
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.6.1976.
Posjeta: 748 *