Study Commission on Demographic Change

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In the Bundestag between 1992 (12th BT.) And 2002 (14th BT) there was a commission of inquiry “ Demographic Change - Challenges of our aging society for the individual and politics ”. This commission was supposed to prepare the numbers of the population development ( demography ) for the Bundestag and to evaluate the societal, economic and social effects resulting from this for all generations . It should (and has in the meantime) determine the foreseeable need for action and give recommendations for political decisions.

Members

The commission consisted of 22 members with a high level of personnel continuity; Chairman was Walter Link (Diepholz, CDU) and Deputy. Chairwoman Gabriele Iwersen (SPD).

The parliamentary groups nominated as experts:

Working method

In addition to the actual committee work, which consisted of 40 meetings, the main work was done in more than 100 meetings by five topic-related working groups.

A series of public hearings gave professionals and stakeholders the opportunity to contribute their ideas and views to the committee's work. Hearings were held on the subject

  • “Work of the commission as well as ideas and possibilities for support by associations and institutions” on November 27, 1995
  • "Demographic development of Germany up to the year 2040 - within the European framework and taking the world population into account" on January 15, 1996
  • “Further development of the economy and the labor market” on June 10, 1996
  • “Positioning - Aim, Range and Importance of Social Security” on September 23, 1996
  • “The social state from the point of view of communitarianism” on October 7, 1996
  • “Municipal concepts for the integration of migrants” on November 11, 1996
  • “Rehabilitation from an economic point of view” on March 17, 1997
  • “Future of Pension Provision in Public Sector” on May 12, 1997

The commission issued 11 scientific opinions. Among other things, different things were examined such as “incentive mechanisms for the employment of older workers”, “relief potential of a partial capital stock under alternative population assumptions”, “causes of the disproportionate increase in health costs in old age”, “change and development of family lifestyles” or “probabilistic population forecasts for Germany ".

Results

The results of the committee work were published in the first interim report (BT-Drucksache 12/7876), which contains an initial inventory, as well as in the second interim report (BT-Drucksache 13/11460) and in the final report of the Enquête Commission in the 14th electoral term.

Part I of this report presents the demographic development in Germany and a European perspective (birth development, reasons for the decline in the birth rate, regional differences, mortality development, migration and the assumptions for the future for these topics). The study analyzes social differentiations, regional differences, differences in East and West Germany, the age structure and the existing model calculations for population development.

Part II analyzes the effects on the economy and work. The topics here are the effects on the labor market, the relationships between productivity, growth and employment, the distribution and growth effects of structural change, and socio-economic issues such as requirements for further training.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Study Commission on Demographic Change (German Bundestag), June 14, 1994: (first) interim report : Challenges of our aging society for the individual and politics . (PDF; 10.5 MB; 328 pages), BT-Drucksache 12/7876, accessed on March 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Study Commission on Demographic Change (German Bundestag), October 5, 1998: Second interim report : Challenges of our aging society to the individual and politics . (ASCII; 2.0 MB), BT-Drucksache 13/11460, accessed on March 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ Final report of the Enquête Commission “Demographic Change - Challenges of our aging society for the individual and politics” (PDF file; 3.53 MB; 304 pages), March 28, 2002, accessed on March 26, 2018.