scholarly journals Mereka yang Terpinggir: Aktiviti Ekonomi Warga Tua dalam Arus Pembangunan Pelancongan di Pulau Perhentian

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
NORIZAN ABDUL GHANI ABDUL GHANI ◽  
WAN IBRAHIM WAN AHMAD ◽  
SULAIMAN MD YASSIN ◽  
WAN SALIHIN WONG ABDULLAH
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Younger Generation

Development generally produced certain impacts on older people. Despite development creates a lot of employment opportunities, these opportunities only suitable for younger generation. The elderly in general are becoming more marginalized and still continue their traditional activities. This paper aims at discussing the economic activities of the elderly in the tourism development in Pulau Perhentian, Terengganu. Results indicated that economic activity of the elderly is still on fishing activities, and many other traditional occupations, such as selling vegetable crops and managing food stalls.

scholarly journals Causes and consequences of low economic activity of older people in Serbia - causes and consequences

2018 ◽  
pp. 573-584
Author(s):  
Biljana Radivojevic ◽  
Biljana Jovanovic-Gavrilovic
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
Demographic Aging ◽  
Low Activity

Demographic aging, as well as the situation on the Serbian labour market, have affected the changes in the age structure of the workforce. The share of active persons older than 50 years in the total labour force has increased, and the share of young people has fallen. In 2017, 27.2% of total active people are in the age group 50-64. Despite the positive trends in the period 2012-2017, the indicators of economic activity and employment of the population in these age groups in Serbia are lower, compared to the rates for the EU countries. Low activity and employment of the older people is the result of leaving the workforce before the retirement age. The poor employment opportunities for older workers meant an early exit from the workforce and their transition to inactivity. The reasons for early exit from the workforce are illness or disability too. Out of the total number of pensioners in Serbia in 2017, 17.1% were disability pensioners. Chronic non-communicable diseases are the leading causes of illness, disability and premature death (tumors and diseases of the bloodstream). In addition to the economic consequences, the low activity of the older population has numerous social consequences. Abandoning work causes marginalization and often leads to complete exclusion from social life. Therefore, stimulating the economic activity of the elderly is one of the more important goals of national policies. It implies the postponement of the retirement decision and the extension of work. Higher employment among the elderly contributes to a better balance between the active and inactive elderly population. Lifelong learning and professional development is a way to improve the position of the elderly in the labour market and increase their employment.

scholarly journals The Use of Age Management to Professional Activiation of the Elderly / Wykorzystanie zarządzania wiekiem w obszarze aktywizacji zawodowej osób starszych

Management ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-318
Author(s):  
Anna Niewiadomska
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
The One

Summary The increase in interest in the topic of aging is associated - to some extent - with the currently unavoidable demographic changes. On the one hand, life expectancy increases, on the other hand, fertility rates fall. As a consequence the proportion of younger generations is reduced, and the share of older generations. A disturbing fact has been the low level of economic activity of the elderly, among others in Europe for many years. The reasons for this are complex. However, looking for ways and means that would allow greater involvement of older people in the labour market should be considered. One such method, which in developed countries is gaining more and more interest is the management of age. The purpose of this article is to indicate the extent to which age management can be useful in improving the professional activity of generations of people 50 +. The background to the issue is the statistics on the labor force participation of older people in Europe.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF ELDERLY PEOPLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Vitalii MORTIKOV
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Pension System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Elderly Workers ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Working Age

The economic activity of the elderly is becoming increasingly important with the aging of the population and the extension of the education of young people. Older people have experience, knowledge, which is an important component of human capital of modern organizations and countries in general. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, according to statistics, the economic activity of the elderly has decreased significantly during the 2008-2018 period. Most elderly workers are among the specialists and representatives of the simplest professions. Data on the registered statistics of economic activity of elderly in the regions of Ukraine are weakly correlated with the situation on regional labor markets. This is due, in particular, to the significant shadow component of employment in this age group. There are both positive and negative aspects of economic activity of older people. Despite the benefits of using the labor of older people, they compete for jobs with people of active working age, their involvement is more expensive for employers. With this in mind, regulating the use of human resources of older workers is necessary to maintain the labor balance in the country as a whole, as well as in regions and individual organizations. The article determines which decisions of the elderly the state can influence: retirement earlier than the normal retirement period; exit after reaching this age; continuation of economic activity outside the retirement age, i.e later retirement. The tools of influencing the economic activity of the elderly are the pension system, the creation of jobs taking into account the interests of older workers, improving the quality of their work, combating age discrimination. It is shown that changes in the pension system of Ukraine in 2017 contribute to the intensification of economic activity of persons of pre-retirement and retirement age.

scholarly journals Senior Entrepreneurship. Self-employment by Older People – an Uncharted Territory

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (s1) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Uwe Fachinger
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Population Means ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Senior Entrepreneurship

Abstract An ageing population means a growing number of healthy older people with human capital, financial resources, and time available to contribute to economic activities. However, the economic potential of older people remains mostly underused, which leads to the question, how to make best use of the underused. One way would be fostering senior entrepreneurship. The paper discusses which factors may positively influence or hinder the self-employment of older people. Overall, attention will be drawn to the relevance of older people in the field of business and entrepreneurial economics. From an economic point of view, it seems necessary not only to focus on young people but also to take into account the large and still growing economic potential of the elderly. There seems to be a treasure in waiting.

scholarly journals Elderly's Contribution in Employment Generation A Study of Mandandeupur Municipality, Kavreplanchowk

Patan Pragya ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Bhumidatta Poudel ◽  
Balaram Devkota
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Skill Transfer ◽  
Traditional Farming ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Economic Contribution ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Almost All

The study primarily looks upon the areas of skills and expertise of elderly and their ability to generate employment based on their own experiences. The study was done in Mandandeupur Municipality of Kavre, where 106 elderly were interviewed regarding their knowledge and experiences, skill transfer and its benefits for younger generation. The study also examines the current status of elderly in the society as well as their economic contribution in their families. Conducted in a rural location; almost all of the elderly were involved in agriculture as their main profession and had started their line of profession without any prior trainings of any sort. This further shows the need of initiating programs via government to link older people with younger generation for skill transfer and innovations in traditional farming system as they still see the relevancy of their profession in the coming ten years. Although the younger generation is shifting towards modernization and glamorous professions rather than agriculture, older people still believe that embracing their line of work can improve younger generations’ social status and generate adequate revenue. It is evident that their traditional skills are currently capable of contributing to their economy so combining that with modern techniques can contribute to better income and employment generation as well. 

scholarly journals TOURIST ENTERPRISES, CONCEPT ON TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ITS ACCOUNTING

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonello Figetto ◽  
Alba Dumi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Core ◽  
Permanent Home

Nowadays, the tourist phenomenon involves millions of people moving from their permanent home to a temporary residence. To enable tourists to travel these people have different needs: for transport, sleeping, and for meals, etc. The sum of all these services is what we define as the hospitality industry, which is one of the world’s leading economic activities. But what do you mean by economic activity? Economic activity is the coordinated and organized whole of all actions and actions to find the goods and services that are appropriate for achieving the goal. At the core of any economic activity lies the fulfillment of human needs. The need for tourism thus constitutes the core of the economic activity of enterprises operating in the field of tourism. Economic activity generally relies on very interdependent moments, like finding the necessary resources for production. The first phase of this activity consists in providing the necessary factors for production, raw material, work, capital. The production of goods or services. The second phase that satisfies the needs consists in: the most appropriate combination of resources used; the transformation of goods and labor into finished products or services.

‘Strength in What Remains Behind’: Wordsworth and the Question of Ageing

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Frequent Pattern ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Old Men ◽  
Poetic Vision

Attending to the hoped-for connection between young and older generations, this essay revisits Wordsworth's poetic fascination with the elderly and the question of what, if any, consolation for emotional and physical loss could be attained for growing old. Wordsworth's imaginative impulse is to idealise the elderly into transcendent figures, which offers the compensation of a harmonious vision to the younger generation for the losses of old age that, in all likelihood, they will themselves experience. The affirmation of such a unified and compensatory vision is dependent upon the reciprocity of sympathy that Wordsworth's poetry both sets into circulation and calls into question. Readings of ‘Simon Lee’, ‘I know an aged Man constrained to dwell’, and ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’ point up the limitations of sympathy and vision (physical and poetic) avowed in these poems as symptomatic of Wordsworth's misgivings about the debilitating effects of growing old and old age. Finally, Wordsworth's unfolding tragedy of ‘Michael’ is interpreted as reinforcing a frequent pattern, observed elsewhere in his poetry, whereby idealised figures of old men transform into disturbingly spectral second selves of their younger counterparts or narrators. These troubling transformations reveal that at the heart of Wordsworth's poetic vision of old age as a harmonious, interconnected, and consoling state, there are disquieting fears of disunity, disconnection, disconsolation, and, lastly, death.

TRADITIONAL OUTBUILDINGS OF THE MORDOVIANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena N. Mokshina ◽  
Mihail I. Svyatkin
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Main Building ◽  
Genetic Problem ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Functional Purpose

Introduction. The article deals with the main traditional outbuildings of the Mordvinians, reported on their functional purpose in economic activity. The forms and types of outbuildings, as well as the main building materials used by Mordvinians are described in details. Their significance in the religious and ceremonial life of the ethnic group is shown. Materials and Methods. The research is based on traditional methods of ethnographic science, such as field observation, survey and interviews, and a comprehensive approach. Among the methods of historical science comparative-historical, historical-genetic, problem-chronological, structural-system were used. Among the general scientific methods of research logical, descriptive, narrative, generalization, classification and systematization were involved. To achieve the results of the study, the materials collected by the authors in the course of field surveys conducted in the Mordovian villages were mainly used. Results and Discussion. Traditional outbuildings were of great importance in the economic activity of the Mordovian ethnic group. According to their functional purpose, they can be divided into the following groups: for livestock and poultry (stable, chicken coop, stable, kalda), sanitary and hygienic (bath), warehouse buildings for storage of food, utensils, firewood, animal feed (barn, cellar, woodshed, hayloft), for processing of grain (sheep, riga, mill). Depending on the welfare and financial capacity of the family, the number of outbuildings was different. As a rule, the wealthier families had more outbuildings than the less wealthier ones. The main building material for the construction of these buildings was wood. Conclusion. Thus, the traditional outbuildings of the Mordvinians occupied an important place in its economic activities. At the same time, each of them had its own purpose and performed certain functions. Some buildings, such as a bath and a barn, had not only economic purpose, but also were the venue for a number of prayers and ceremonies. It is now ordinarily they have banya (bath-house), outdoor courtyard with standing in different places sheds, barn and cellar.

The specifics of shadow economic activity in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 1896-1915
Author(s):  
E.R. Ermakova ◽  
O.M. Lizina
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Reproductive Process ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Impact

Subject. The article addresses the specifics of shadow economic activities in reformed Russia in the context of systemic transformations. Objectives. We focus on determining the role of shadow economy in the reproductive process, identifying and understanding the specifics of underground economic activity of the Russian economy. Methods. The study rests on general scientific methods (scientific abstraction, unity of historical and logical, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparison and analogy) and special methods of cognition (monetary methods). We employ the systems and integrated approach. The official statistics, regulations, works of leading researchers on shadow economy expansion, resources of reference and legal systems like Garant and ConsultantPlus serve as the study's information base. Results. We present a retrospective rapid analysis of the extent of shadow economic activity in the domestic economy, establishing the relationships with the processes that take place at different stages of the country's development. We also reveal the specifics of shadow economy relations in Russia, factors that play a key role in expansion for a particular period, a shift to another form of shadow economy. The study characterizes the current period of development, assesses the impact of external shocks on shadow economy expansion. Conclusions. The current period is characterized by the digitization of shadow relations, the shift of corruption to the upper echelons of power, the continued outflow of capital abroad, and increased penalties for underground activities.

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