PROMOTING ACTIVE AGEING IN ROMANIA. FROM SOCIAL POLICIES TO LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS
PROMOTING ACTIVE AGEING IN ROMANIA. FROM SOCIAL POLICIES TO LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of this paper is that, according to the statistics of the European Bureau of Statistics - Eurostat, by 2060 there will be only two older workers (15-64 years old) in the European Union per person aged over 65, compared to one a four to one report, today. The strongest change in this direction has begun starting with 2015 and till 2035, when children born in the two decades after World War II (the “baby-boomers”) have begun to retire. In the first part of the paper we are presenting and analyzing the main European regulations in the field of increasing active ageing in Europe and how they are transposed into Romanian social legislation and policy. In our country, the elderly population is characterized by a low and falling employment rate (as a consequences, Romania is 10% below the European average, very far from developed countries such as Great Britain, Germany, Sweden). The second part of the paper is the result of an analysis of secondary data, at European and national level, the analysis by which we try to answer to the question whether the measures for extending the retirement age in the European states, can be applied also in Romania.

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