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OXFORD INSTITUTE<br />

OF AGEING<br />

<strong>Oxford</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> of <strong>Age<strong>in</strong>g</strong><br />

1. Intro: From ‚Socialist‘ to ‚<strong>Age<strong>in</strong>g</strong>‘ Societies (2)<br />

Uncerta<strong>in</strong>ty, <strong>in</strong>security<br />

Did people change their behaviour / take different decisions?<br />

Mass emigration of young <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Europe</strong>ans to Western <strong>Europe</strong>, North<br />

America, Australia, etc.<br />

Young people <strong>in</strong> CEE stopped hav<strong>in</strong>g children (postponement)!<br />

Until today, little attention paid to causes of this extraord<strong>in</strong>ary fertility decl<strong>in</strong>e<br />

(Caldwell & Sch<strong>in</strong>dlmayr 2003)<br />

1. Is there population age<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> CEE?<br />

2. Is there a l<strong>in</strong>k between post-communist transformation <strong>and</strong> population<br />

age<strong>in</strong>g?<br />

This paper argues that population age<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Europe</strong> is<br />

an (un<strong>in</strong>tended) outcome of the socio-economic <strong>in</strong>security <strong>in</strong> the wake of<br />

the transformation of the CEE planned economies to market economies.

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