Demographic Change and Policy Interventions

Demographic change is a serious challenge for a number of industrialized countries as it jeopardizes financing social security. Economic policy reacted to this challenge with a number of measures which aim at coping with the consequences of demographic change and also at increasing birth rates. The goal of this paper is to present measures taken up in Germany and to evaluate them from an economic perspective. Moreover, they are compared to the measures taken up by other countries.