Economic policy measures are generally fundamented on a system of indicators which allows both a static and a dynamic analysis of the complex processes taking place at macroeconomic level, especially when dealing with structural changes or dependences between population and economy. Labor market...

In this paper we study changes in the size and the composition of the labour force in five OECD countries from 1983 through 2000. We apply a recent decomposition method to quantify the components of the change over time in the crude labour force rate and the mean age of the labour force. Our...